diff --git a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/pci.c b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/pci.c
index cc68a681e..a899c0cf0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/nvgpu/pci.c
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static char *nvgpu_pci_devnode(struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
 	return kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "nvgpu-pci/%s", dev_name(dev));
 }
 
-struct class nvgpu_pci_class = {
+static struct class nvgpu_pci_class = {
 	.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 	.name = "nvidia-pci-gpu",
 	.devnode = nvgpu_pci_devnode,