diff --git a/src/import/pull-dkr.c b/src/import/pull-dkr.c
index 78e3184c42b..67ca1ce8e40 100644
--- a/src/import/pull-dkr.c
+++ b/src/import/pull-dkr.c
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ static void dkr_pull_job_on_finished_v2(PullJob *j) {
 
         } else if (i->tags_job == j) {
                 const char *url;
-                _cleanup_free_ const char *buf;
+                _cleanup_free_ char *buf;
                 _cleanup_json_variant_unref_ JsonVariant *doc = NULL;
                 JsonVariant *e = NULL;
 
diff --git a/src/journal/journal-vacuum.c b/src/journal/journal-vacuum.c
index 81a577ea276..17499bbc303 100644
--- a/src/journal/journal-vacuum.c
+++ b/src/journal/journal-vacuum.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static void patch_realtime(
                 const struct stat *st,
                 unsigned long long *realtime) {
 
-        _cleanup_free_ const char *path = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *path = NULL;
         usec_t x, crtime = 0;
 
         /* The timestamp was determined by the file name, but let's
diff --git a/src/udev/udev-builtin-hwdb.c b/src/udev/udev-builtin-hwdb.c
index b656204c464..72109d93d21 100644
--- a/src/udev/udev-builtin-hwdb.c
+++ b/src/udev/udev-builtin-hwdb.c
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static sd_hwdb *hwdb;
 int udev_builtin_hwdb_lookup(struct udev_device *dev,
                              const char *prefix, const char *modalias,
                              const char *filter, bool test) {
-        _cleanup_free_ const char *lookup = NULL;
+        _cleanup_free_ char *lookup = NULL;
         const char *key, *value;
         int n = 0;