diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
index db00ecc44b54794a41f680c232bc1ec623c4fd01..aba98985454e6383b08aaf939b85b070d57bfcd7 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-01-22  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>
+
+	* gdk-pixbuf-loader.c (gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type) 
+	(gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_mime_type): Close the loader
+	before unreffing it in the error case.  (#164915, Crispin 
+	Flowerday)
+
 2005-01-12  Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
 
 	* Makefile.am: 	Use grep | head -n 1 instead of grep -m 1 
diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c b/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
index 9e252c5706213b99fe9bf72370475d7aaa7b00f2..bccee9fc778d34bb588f2a68eacb77d5fa2411ed 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/gdk-pixbuf-loader.c
@@ -564,6 +564,7 @@ gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type (const char *image_type,
         if (tmp != NULL)
                 {
                         g_propagate_error (error, tmp);
+                        gdk_pixbuf_loader_close (retval, NULL);
                         g_object_unref (retval);
                         return NULL;
                 }
@@ -619,10 +620,11 @@ gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_mime_type (const char *mime_type,
         retval = g_object_new (GDK_TYPE_PIXBUF_LOADER, NULL);
 
         tmp = NULL;
-        gdk_pixbuf_loader_load_module(retval, image_type, &tmp);
+        gdk_pixbuf_loader_load_module (retval, image_type, &tmp);
         if (tmp != NULL)
                 {
                         g_propagate_error (error, tmp);
+                        gdk_pixbuf_loader_close (retval, NULL);
                         g_object_unref (retval);
                         return NULL;
                 }