diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 7d72a7ad5b35..0c104c1e4169 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: c06cb8b1c4d25e5b4d7a2d7c2462619de1e0dbc4
+refs/heads/master: bfc5ecdf48b529f6a2bd98ba26bfac39ca8cd8a5
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c b/trunk/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
index d13bb15a8a02..4510ad8f971c 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c
@@ -606,9 +606,14 @@ static struct hash_cell *__find_device_hash_cell(struct dm_ioctl *param)
 		return __get_name_cell(param->name);
 
 	md = dm_get_md(huge_decode_dev(param->dev));
-	if (md)
-		mdptr = dm_get_mdptr(md);
+	if (!md)
+		goto out;
 
+	mdptr = dm_get_mdptr(md);
+	if (!mdptr)
+		dm_put(md);
+
+out:
 	return mdptr;
 }