diff --git a/WHATS_NEW_DM b/WHATS_NEW_DM
index 1a7786c8c..84fef3a29 100644
--- a/WHATS_NEW_DM
+++ b/WHATS_NEW_DM
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Version 1.02.70 - 
 ===================================
+  Fix fd resource leak in error path for _udev_notify_sem_create().
   Leave space for '\0' for readline() call in _sysfs_get_kernel_name().
 
 Version 1.02.69 - 1st February 2012
diff --git a/libdm/libdm-common.c b/libdm/libdm-common.c
index 2fb5e5e52..94809f95c 100644
--- a/libdm/libdm-common.c
+++ b/libdm/libdm-common.c
@@ -1738,7 +1738,7 @@ static int _udev_notify_sem_create(uint32_t *cookie, int *semid)
 		log_error("semid %d: sem_ctl GETVAL failed for "
 			  "cookie 0x%" PRIx32 ": %s",
 			  gen_semid, gen_cookie, strerror(errno));
-		return 0;		
+		goto bad;
 	}
 
 	log_debug("Udev cookie 0x%" PRIx32 " (semid %d) incremented to %d",