diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c b/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
index 344a1e9bbce5..324eceb07b25 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/haswell/sst-haswell-ipc.c
@@ -2201,7 +2201,6 @@ int sst_hsw_dsp_init(struct device *dev, struct sst_pdata *pdata)
 dsp_new_err:
 	sst_ipc_fini(ipc);
 ipc_init_err:
-	kfree(hsw);
 	return ret;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sst_hsw_dsp_init);