diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
index 8b9f935afe09..b3f02c490ecb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.c
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ nouveau_sched_destroy(struct nouveau_sched **psched)
 	struct nouveau_sched *sched = *psched;
 
 	nouveau_sched_fini(sched);
-	kfree(sched);
+	kfree_rcu(sched, rcu);
 
 	*psched = NULL;
 }
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
index 20cd1da8db73..51ce8dcf6285 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_sched.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ void nouveau_job_free(struct nouveau_job *job);
 
 struct nouveau_sched {
 	struct drm_gpu_scheduler base;
+	struct rcu_head rcu;
 	struct drm_sched_entity entity;
 	struct workqueue_struct *wq;
 	struct mutex mutex;