Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
---
 qobject/json-streamer.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qobject/json-streamer.c b/qobject/json-streamer.c
index 0c33186e8e..fa595a8761 100644
--- a/qobject/json-streamer.c
+++ b/qobject/json-streamer.c
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ void json_message_process_token(JSONLexer *lexer, GString *input,
     case JSON_RSQUARE:
         parser->bracket_count--;
         break;
+    case JSON_ERROR:
+        goto out_emit;
     default:
         break;
     }
@@ -71,10 +73,6 @@ void json_message_process_token(JSONLexer *lexer, GString *input,
 
     g_queue_push_tail(parser->tokens, token);
 
-    if (type == JSON_ERROR) {
-        goto out_emit;
-    }
-
     if (parser->brace_count < 0 ||
         parser->bracket_count < 0 ||
         (parser->brace_count == 0 &&
-- 
2.17.1