diff --git a/components/wpa_supplicant/src/eap_peer/eap.c b/components/wpa_supplicant/src/eap_peer/eap.c
index 7cc829d0c3..5600649962 100644
--- a/components/wpa_supplicant/src/eap_peer/eap.c
+++ b/components/wpa_supplicant/src/eap_peer/eap.c
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ void eap_peer_config_deinit(struct eap_sm *sm)
 	os_free(sm->config.new_password);
 	os_free(sm->config.eap_methods);
 	os_bzero(&sm->config, sizeof(struct eap_peer_config));
+	config_methods = NULL;
 }
 
 int eap_peer_blob_init(struct eap_sm *sm)