diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index 0404dbdfd6098e911b26002fc3f4b7dd70563f93..e97f4499c9475890277dedec90f8398eeb13a412 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b/block/curl.c
@@ -343,39 +343,38 @@ static CURLState *curl_init_state(BDRVCURLState *s)
         }
     } while(!state);
 
-    if (state->curl)
-        goto has_curl;
-
-    state->curl = curl_easy_init();
-    if (!state->curl)
-        return NULL;
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_URL, s->url);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, (void *)curl_read_cb);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)state);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, (void *)state);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, state->errmsg);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
-
-    /* Restrict supported protocols to avoid security issues in the more
-     * obscure protocols.  For example, do not allow POP3/SMTP/IMAP see
-     * CVE-2013-0249.
-     *
-     * Restricting protocols is only supported from 7.19.4 upwards.
-     */
+    if (!state->curl) {
+        state->curl = curl_easy_init();
+        if (!state->curl) {
+            return NULL;
+        }
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_URL, s->url);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION,
+                         (void *)curl_read_cb);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void *)state);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_PRIVATE, (void *)state);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_NOSIGNAL, 1);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, state->errmsg);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, 1);
+
+        /* Restrict supported protocols to avoid security issues in the more
+         * obscure protocols.  For example, do not allow POP3/SMTP/IMAP see
+         * CVE-2013-0249.
+         *
+         * Restricting protocols is only supported from 7.19.4 upwards.
+         */
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x071304
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, PROTOCOLS);
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS, PROTOCOLS);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS, PROTOCOLS);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_REDIR_PROTOCOLS, PROTOCOLS);
 #endif
 
 #ifdef DEBUG_VERBOSE
-    curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
+        curl_easy_setopt(state->curl, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 #endif
-
-has_curl:
+    }
 
     state->s = s;