diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 066db88..8d2306f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 ## Development
 
 * Added support for Python 3.12.
+* Fixed a memory leak in the ``yajl2_c`` backend
+  triggered only when the underlying ``yajl`` functions
+  reported a failure (#97).
 
 ## [3.2.0.post0]
 
diff --git a/ijson/backends/yajl2_c/reading_generator.c b/ijson/backends/yajl2_c/reading_generator.c
index d17be2c..8758b76 100644
--- a/ijson/backends/yajl2_c/reading_generator.c
+++ b/ijson/backends/yajl2_c/reading_generator.c
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ PyObject *reading_generator_next(reading_generator_t *self)
 			length = view.len;
 			PyObject *send_res = ijson_yajl_parse(basic_parse_basecoro->h, view.buf, view.len);
 			Py_DECREF(pbuffer);
+			PyBuffer_Release(&view);
 			N_N(send_res);
 		}
 		else {
@@ -84,9 +85,10 @@ PyObject *reading_generator_next(reading_generator_t *self)
 			N_M1(length);
 			Py_DECREF(plength);
 			N_M1(PyObject_GetBuffer(self->buffer, &view, PyBUF_SIMPLE));
-			N_N(ijson_yajl_parse(basic_parse_basecoro->h, view.buf, length));
+			PyObject *send_res = ijson_yajl_parse(basic_parse_basecoro->h, view.buf, length);
+			PyBuffer_Release(&view);
+			N_N(send_res);
 		}
-		PyBuffer_Release(&view);
 		nevents = PyList_Size(events);
 
 		if (length == 0) {