diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f09ca92819..b4bed78401 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Fri Feb 16 18:23:15 IST 2007 Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
+
+	* qemud/qemud.c: fix qemudEnableIpForwarding() to not leak
+	an fd if writing to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward fails.
+	
 Fri Feb 16 11:56:24 EST 2007 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
 
 	* tests/Makefile.am: Fixed linkage of test suites
diff --git a/qemud/qemud.c b/qemud/qemud.c
index 24af96709f..4fb47fd30e 100644
--- a/qemud/qemud.c
+++ b/qemud/qemud.c
@@ -980,15 +980,17 @@ qemudEnableIpForwarding(void)
 {
 #define PROC_IP_FORWARD "/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
 
-  int fd;
+    int fd, ret;
 
-  if ((fd = open(PROC_IP_FORWARD, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC)) == -1 ||
-      write(fd, "1\n", 2) < 0)
-      return 0;
+    if ((fd = open(PROC_IP_FORWARD, O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC)) == -1)
+        return 0;
 
-  close (fd);
+    if (write(fd, "1\n", 2) < 0)
+        ret = 0;
 
-  return 1;
+    close (fd);
+
+    return 1;
 
 #undef PROC_IP_FORWARD
 }