diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
index c022bf9448..bf3b528c5f 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
@@ -12396,7 +12396,7 @@ static int
 qemuConnectStealCPUModelFromInfo(virCPUDef *dst,
                                  qemuMonitorCPUModelInfo **src)
 {
-    qemuMonitorCPUModelInfo *info;
+    g_autoptr(qemuMonitorCPUModelInfo) info = NULL;
     size_t i;
     int ret = -1;
 
@@ -12419,7 +12419,6 @@ qemuConnectStealCPUModelFromInfo(virCPUDef *dst,
     ret = 0;
 
  cleanup:
-    qemuMonitorCPUModelInfoFree(info);
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c b/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
index 40eb2b8358..0ec8aec940 100644
--- a/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
+++ b/tests/qemumonitorjsontest.c
@@ -2838,7 +2838,7 @@ testQemuMonitorJSONqemuMonitorJSONGetCPUModelBaseline(const void *opaque)
     g_autoptr(qemuMonitorTest) test = NULL;
     g_autoptr(virCPUDef) cpu_a = virCPUDefNew();
     g_autoptr(virCPUDef) cpu_b = virCPUDefNew();
-    qemuMonitorCPUModelInfo *baseline = NULL;
+    g_autoptr(qemuMonitorCPUModelInfo) baseline = NULL;
     int ret = -1;
 
     if (!(test = qemuMonitorTestNewSchema(data->xmlopt, data->schema)))
@@ -2897,7 +2897,6 @@ testQemuMonitorJSONqemuMonitorJSONGetCPUModelBaseline(const void *opaque)
     ret = 0;
 
  cleanup:
-    qemuMonitorCPUModelInfoFree(baseline);
     return ret;
 }