diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index 8b9c92f3ff95..0275a350dc23 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ static struct aa_loaddata *aa_simple_write_to_buffer(const char __user *userbuf,
 
 	data->size = copy_size;
 	if (copy_from_user(data->data, userbuf, copy_size)) {
-		kvfree(data);
+		aa_put_loaddata(data);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
 	}