diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
index 437aaed57057..72563be3537c 100644
--- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
+++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_interactive.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ struct cpufreq_interactive_tunables {
 };
 
 /* For cases where we have single governor instance for system */
-struct cpufreq_interactive_tunables *common_tunables;
+static struct cpufreq_interactive_tunables *common_tunables;
 
 static struct attribute_group *get_sysfs_attr(void);