diff --git a/builtin/archive.c b/builtin/archive.c
index b50981504f..63f02990d1 100644
--- a/builtin/archive.c
+++ b/builtin/archive.c
@@ -100,13 +100,16 @@ int cmd_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (output)
 		create_output_file(output);
 
-	if (remote)
-		return run_remote_archiver(argc, argv, remote, exec, output);
+	if (remote) {
+		ret = run_remote_archiver(argc, argv, remote, exec, output);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
 	setvbuf(stderr, NULL, _IOLBF, BUFSIZ);
 
 	ret = write_archive(argc, argv, prefix, the_repository, output, 0);
 
+out:
 	free(output);
 	return ret;
 }
diff --git a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
index 72b8d0ff02..7abba8a4b2 100755
--- a/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
+++ b/t/t5000-tar-tree.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ commit id embedding:
 '
 
 TEST_CREATE_REPO_NO_TEMPLATE=1
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 SUBSTFORMAT=%H%n
diff --git a/t/t5003-archive-zip.sh b/t/t5003-archive-zip.sh
index 961c6aac25..01f591c99b 100755
--- a/t/t5003-archive-zip.sh
+++ b/t/t5003-archive-zip.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 test_description='git archive --format=zip test'
 
 TEST_CREATE_REPO_NO_TEMPLATE=1
+TEST_PASSES_SANITIZE_LEAK=true
 . ./test-lib.sh
 
 SUBSTFORMAT=%H%n