diff --git a/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance b/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance
index 66e361b5ce24..1da5be5b0828 100755
--- a/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance
+++ b/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance
@@ -212,12 +212,11 @@ def _upload_tarball(staging_path, image_id, glance_host, glance_port,
 
         compression_level = properties.get('xenapi_image_compression_level')
 
-        try:
-            utils.create_tarball(
-                    None, staging_path, callback=send_chunked_transfer_encoded,
-                    compression_level=compression_level)
-        finally:
-            send_chunked_transfer_encoded('')  # Chunked-Transfer terminator
+        utils.create_tarball(
+                None, staging_path, callback=send_chunked_transfer_encoded,
+                compression_level=compression_level)
+
+        send_chunked_transfer_encoded('')  # Chunked-Transfer terminator
 
         bytes_written = callback_data['bytes_written']
         logging.info("Wrote %d bytes to %s" % (bytes_written, url))