diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
index b17b105ca3..b46a4f122c 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_sendrecv.c
@@ -2640,6 +2640,7 @@ recv_read_nvlist(libzfs_handle_t *hdl, int fd, int len, nvlist_t **nvp,
 
 	if (len > hdl->libzfs_max_nvlist) {
 		zfs_error_aux(hdl, dgettext(TEXT_DOMAIN, "nvlist too large"));
+		free(buf);
 		return (ENOMEM);
 	}
 
diff --git a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
index 301c8ddbab..651bca2978 100644
--- a/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
+++ b/lib/libzfs/libzfs_util.c
@@ -1060,6 +1060,9 @@ libzfs_init(void)
 		if ((error = zfs_nicestrtonum(hdl, env,
 		    &hdl->libzfs_max_nvlist))) {
 			errno = error;
+			(void) close(hdl->libzfs_fd);
+			(void) fclose(hdl->libzfs_mnttab);
+			free(hdl);
 			return (NULL);
 		}
 	} else {