diff --git a/ci/upload-coverage.sh b/ci/upload-coverage.sh
index 250d8c90ef..ef0bdb6e42 100755
--- a/ci/upload-coverage.sh
+++ b/ci/upload-coverage.sh
@@ -11,11 +11,6 @@ if [ "${CIRRUS_REPO_FULL_NAME}" != "zeek/zeek" ]; then
     exit 0
 fi
 
-if [ "${CIRRUS_BRANCH}" != "master" ]; then
-    echo "Coverage upload skipped for non-master branches"
-    exit 0
-fi
-
 cd testing/coverage
 make coverage
 make coveralls
diff --git a/testing/coverage/lcov_html.sh b/testing/coverage/lcov_html.sh
index 2d166282fe..18898048b4 100755
--- a/testing/coverage/lcov_html.sh
+++ b/testing/coverage/lcov_html.sh
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ if [ $HTML_REPORT -eq 1 ]; then
     echo -n "Creating HTML files... "
     verify_run "genhtml --ignore-errors empty -o $COVERAGE_HTML_DIR $COVERAGE_FILE"
 else
+    if [ "${CIRRUS_BRANCH}" != "master" ]; then
+        echo "Coverage upload skipped for non-master branches"
+        exit 0
+    fi
+
     # The data we send to coveralls has a lot of duplicate files in it because of the
     # zeek symlink in the src directory. Run a script that cleans that up.
     echo -n "Cleaning coverage data for Coveralls..."