diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
index d53d34a33e35..c012a52b19f5 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/arm/vgic/vgic-its.c
@@ -96,14 +96,21 @@ out_unlock:
 	 * We "cache" the configuration table entries in our struct vgic_irq's.
 	 * However we only have those structs for mapped IRQs, so we read in
 	 * the respective config data from memory here upon mapping the LPI.
+	 *
+	 * Should any of these fail, behave as if we couldn't create the LPI
+	 * by dropping the refcount and returning the error.
 	 */
 	ret = update_lpi_config(kvm, irq, NULL, false);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		vgic_put_irq(kvm, irq);
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+	}
 
 	ret = vgic_v3_lpi_sync_pending_status(kvm, irq);
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		vgic_put_irq(kvm, irq);
 		return ERR_PTR(ret);
+	}
 
 	return irq;
 }