diff --git a/src/conf/node_device_conf.c b/src/conf/node_device_conf.c
index 4b65953c8fc0f0931959c4722075115ed3a3d5a1..09c0f41672a3843c1a3b5c8e81dbb0d2e1c97940 100644
--- a/src/conf/node_device_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/node_device_conf.c
@@ -797,6 +797,7 @@ virNodeDevCapScsiHostParseXML(xmlXPathContextPtr ctxt,
 out:
     VIR_FREE(type);
     ctxt->node = orignode;
+    VIR_FREE(nodes);
     return ret;
 }