diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
index d0406116c9057dd237aba97b7cf3669576ab826f..926a8e1b5e9472b205e8fb9801fae906b4012502 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/evsel-tp-sched.c
@@ -85,5 +85,6 @@ int test__perf_evsel__tp_sched_test(struct test *test __maybe_unused, int subtes
 	if (perf_evsel__test_field(evsel, "target_cpu", 4, true))
 		ret = -1;
 
+	perf_evsel__delete(evsel);
 	return ret;
 }