diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3bed2632d164..6192950e64c6 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: ab78c84de1ce4db1b2a2cef361625ad80abbab3f
+refs/heads/master: 3bf10418675cb424724b5cb9d7725b234defe1fd
diff --git a/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index 8d4cc4679d51..5fe6a0d532ed 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ int btrfs_start_workers(struct btrfs_workers *workers, int num_workers)
 		worker->task = kthread_run(worker_loop, worker, "btrfs");
 		worker->workers = workers;
 		if (IS_ERR(worker->task)) {
+			kfree(worker);
 			ret = PTR_ERR(worker->task);
 			goto fail;
 		}