diff --git a/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl-sst-utils.c b/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl-sst-utils.c
index 57ea815d3f04..b776c58dcf47 100644
--- a/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl-sst-utils.c
+++ b/sound/soc/intel/skylake/skl-sst-utils.c
@@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ int snd_skl_parse_uuids(struct sst_dsp *ctx, const struct firmware *fw,
 		module->instance_id = devm_kzalloc(ctx->dev, size, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!module->instance_id) {
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			kfree(module);
 			goto free_uuid_list;
 		}