diff --git a/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl.java b/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl.java
index e4f935c111346..a3b89539d31fe 100644
--- a/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl.java
+++ b/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/main/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl.java
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ public void close() throws IOException {
         // And through debug, writeBlobStore.uploadMultipartPart in the offload method also will trigger
         // the close method.
         // So we add the close variable to avoid release paddingBuf twice.
-        if (!close.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+        if (close.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
             super.close();
             dataBlockHeaderStream.close();
             if (!entriesByteBuf.isEmpty()) {
diff --git a/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/test/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamTest.java b/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/test/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamTest.java
index 0cd4bbd70a9e6..fff1ce8b7aa9a 100644
--- a/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/test/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamTest.java
+++ b/tiered-storage/jcloud/src/test/java/org/apache/bookkeeper/mledger/offload/jcloud/impl/BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamTest.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
 import io.netty.buffer.Unpooled;
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -798,4 +799,18 @@ public void testReadTillLacWithSmallBuffer() throws Exception {
 
         inputStream.close();
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCloseReleaseResources() throws Exception {
+        ReadHandle readHandle = new MockReadHandle(1, 10, 10);
+
+        BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl inputStream = new BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl(readHandle, 0, 1024);
+        inputStream.read();
+        Field field = BlockAwareSegmentInputStreamImpl.class.getDeclaredField("paddingBuf");
+        field.setAccessible(true);
+        ByteBuf paddingBuf = (ByteBuf) field.get(inputStream);
+        assertEquals(1, paddingBuf.refCnt());
+        inputStream.close();
+        assertEquals(0, paddingBuf.refCnt());
+    }
 }