diff --git a/tests/qemuagenttest.c b/tests/qemuagenttest.c
index 28a543ce05..a659feedfb 100644
--- a/tests/qemuagenttest.c
+++ b/tests/qemuagenttest.c
@@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ testQemuAgentCPU(const void *data)
 {
     virDomainXMLOption *xmlopt = (virDomainXMLOption *)data;
     g_autoptr(qemuMonitorTest) test = qemuMonitorTestNewAgent(xmlopt);
-    qemuAgentCPUInfo *cpuinfo = NULL;
+    g_autofree qemuAgentCPUInfo *cpuinfo = NULL;
     int nvcpus;
     int ret = -1;
 
@@ -694,7 +694,6 @@ testQemuAgentCPU(const void *data)
     ret = 0;
 
  cleanup:
-    VIR_FREE(cpuinfo);
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c b/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
index fab413d05e..69c41ad42d 100644
--- a/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
+++ b/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ testQemuMonitorJSONGetVersion(const void *opaque)
     int major;
     int minor;
     int micro;
-    char *package = NULL;
+    g_autofree char *package = NULL;
     g_autoptr(qemuMonitorTest) test = NULL;
 
     if (!(test = qemuMonitorTestNewSchema(xmlopt, data->schema)))
@@ -337,7 +337,6 @@ testQemuMonitorJSONGetVersion(const void *opaque)
     ret = 0;
 
  cleanup:
-    VIR_FREE(package);
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
index 2c63e95bda..2ca17f7f48 100644
--- a/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
+++ b/tests/qemumonitortestutils.c
@@ -997,8 +997,8 @@ qemuMonitorCommonTestNew(virDomainXMLOption *xmlopt,
                          virDomainChrSourceDef *src)
 {
     g_autoptr(qemuMonitorTest) test = NULL;
-    char *path = NULL;
-    char *tmpdir_template = NULL;
+    g_autofree char *path = NULL;
+    g_autofree char *tmpdir_template = NULL;
 
     test = g_new0(qemuMonitorTest, 1);
 
@@ -1047,8 +1047,6 @@ qemuMonitorCommonTestNew(virDomainXMLOption *xmlopt,
     return g_steal_pointer(&test);
 
  error:
-    VIR_FREE(path);
-    VIR_FREE(tmpdir_template);
     return NULL;
 
 }