diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 617ccac4a5..604e006dab 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -19590,7 +19590,6 @@ virDomainMemorytuneDefParse(virDomainDefPtr def,
     VIR_AUTOUNREF(virResctrlAllocPtr) alloc = NULL;
     ssize_t i = 0;
     int n;
-    int ret = -1;
 
     ctxt->node = node;
 
@@ -19632,14 +19631,13 @@ virDomainMemorytuneDefParse(virDomainDefPtr def,
         if (!(resctrl = virDomainResctrlNew(node, alloc, vcpus, flags)))
             return -1;
 
-        if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT(def->resctrls, def->nresctrls, resctrl) < 0)
-            goto cleanup;
+        if (VIR_APPEND_ELEMENT(def->resctrls, def->nresctrls, resctrl) < 0) {
+            virDomainResctrlDefFree(resctrl);
+            return -1;
+        }
     }
 
-    ret = 0;
- cleanup:
-    virDomainResctrlDefFree(resctrl);
-    return ret;
+    return 0;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/tests/genericxml2xmlindata/memorytune.xml b/tests/genericxml2xmlindata/memorytune.xml
index ea03e22fc2..7486b542c5 100644
--- a/tests/genericxml2xmlindata/memorytune.xml
+++ b/tests/genericxml2xmlindata/memorytune.xml
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@
   <currentMemory unit='KiB'>219136</currentMemory>
   <vcpu placement='static'>4</vcpu>
   <cputune>
+    <cachetune vcpus='0-1'>
+      <cache id='0' level='3' type='both' size='768' unit='KiB'/>
+      <cache id='1' level='3' type='both' size='768' unit='KiB'/>
+    </cachetune>
     <memorytune vcpus='0-1'>
       <node id='0' bandwidth='20'/>
       <node id='1' bandwidth='30'/>