diff --git a/src/rdb.c b/src/rdb.c
index 226324627..97fad2573 100644
--- a/src/rdb.c
+++ b/src/rdb.c
@@ -386,8 +386,7 @@ void *rdbLoadLzfStringObject(rio *rdb, int flags, size_t *lenptr) {
     /* Load the compressed representation and uncompress it to target. */
     if (rioRead(rdb,c,clen) == 0) goto err;
     if (lzf_decompress(c,clen,val,len) == 0) {
-        if (rdbCheckMode) rdbCheckSetError("Invalid LZF compressed string");
-        goto err;
+        rdbExitReportCorruptRDB("Invalid LZF compressed string");
     }
     zfree(c);