diff --git a/iocore/net/SSLConfig.cc b/iocore/net/SSLConfig.cc
index 29093762cb9..830ae1cffa7 100644
--- a/iocore/net/SSLConfig.cc
+++ b/iocore/net/SSLConfig.cc
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ SSLCertificateConfig::reconfigure()
 
   // If there are errors in the certificate configs and we had wanted to exit on error
   // we won't want to reset the config
-  if (lookup->is_valid || !params->configExitOnLoadError) {
+  if (retStatus || !params->configExitOnLoadError) {
     configid = configProcessor.set(configid, lookup);
   } else {
     delete lookup;