diff --git a/blame.c b/blame.c
index 90633380cd..bf69768a7d 100644
--- a/blame.c
+++ b/blame.c
@@ -2931,6 +2931,7 @@ void setup_blame_bloom_data(struct blame_scoreboard *sb)
 void cleanup_scoreboard(struct blame_scoreboard *sb)
 {
 	free(sb->lineno);
+	free(sb->final_buf);
 	clear_prio_queue(&sb->commits);
 	oidset_clear(&sb->ignore_list);
 
diff --git a/blame.h b/blame.h
index 5b4e47d44c..3b34be0e5c 100644
--- a/blame.h
+++ b/blame.h
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ struct blame_scoreboard {
 	 * Used by many functions to obtain contents of the nth line,
 	 * indexed with scoreboard.lineno[blame_entry.lno].
 	 */
-	const char *final_buf;
+	char *final_buf;
 	unsigned long final_buf_size;
 
 	/* linked list of blames */
diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index e407a22da3..6a7bb3b072 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -1216,12 +1216,6 @@ parse_done:
 		output_option &= ~(OUTPUT_COLOR_LINE | OUTPUT_SHOW_AGE_WITH_COLOR);
 
 	output(&sb, output_option);
-	free((void *)sb.final_buf);
-	for (ent = sb.ent; ent; ) {
-		struct blame_entry *e = ent->next;
-		free(ent);
-		ent = e;
-	}
 
 	if (show_stats) {
 		printf("num read blob: %d\n", sb.num_read_blob);
@@ -1230,6 +1224,12 @@ parse_done:
 	}
 
 cleanup:
+	for (ent = sb.ent; ent; ) {
+		struct blame_entry *e = ent->next;
+		free(ent);
+		ent = e;
+	}
+
 	free(path);
 	cleanup_scoreboard(&sb);
 	release_revisions(&revs);
diff --git a/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh b/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
index 7a1f581c24..fa765aff99 100755
--- a/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
+++ b/t/t8005-blame-i18n.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 test_description='git blame encoding conversion'
+
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 if ! test_have_prereq ICONV