diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
index 1ad3f6830f06..7dc4e46917eb 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
@@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ zpool_standard_error_fmt(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, int error, const char *fmt, ...)
 	case ENOSPC:
 	case EDQUOT:
 		zfs_verror(hdl, EZFS_NOSPC, fmt, ap);
-		return (-1);
+		break;
 
 	case EAGAIN:
 		zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN,