diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/pagefuncs.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/pagefuncs.c
index b6a23a2a4fa..368ada515cf 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/pagefuncs.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/pagefuncs.c
@@ -220,10 +220,10 @@ check_relation_fork(TupleDesc tupdesc, Tuplestorestate *tupstore,
 
 		/* Save the corrupted blocks in the tuplestore. */
 		tuplestore_putvalues(tupstore, tupdesc, values, nulls);
-
-		pfree(path);
 	}
 
+	pfree(path);
+
 	/* Pop the error context stack */
 	error_context_stack = errcallback.previous;
 }