diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 3b4ffaf0cd52..f4a6851e6c88 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -6437,6 +6437,7 @@ noinline int can_nocow_extent(struct inode *inode, u64 offset, u64 *len,
 
 	if (btrfs_extent_readonly(root, disk_bytenr))
 		goto out;
+	btrfs_release_path(path);
 
 	/*
 	 * look for other files referencing this extent, if we