diff --git a/test/core/bad_ssl/servers/cert.c b/test/core/bad_ssl/servers/cert.c
index bd11efd3147..67c3e29ce03 100644
--- a/test/core/bad_ssl/servers/cert.c
+++ b/test/core/bad_ssl/servers/cert.c
@@ -52,16 +52,15 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   grpc_server_credentials *ssl_creds;
   grpc_server *server;
   gpr_slice cert_slice, key_slice;
-  int ok;
 
   grpc_init();
 
-  cert_slice =
-      gpr_load_file("src/core/lib/tsi/test_creds/badserver.pem", 1, &ok);
-  GPR_ASSERT(ok);
-  key_slice =
-      gpr_load_file("src/core/lib/tsi/test_creds/badserver.key", 1, &ok);
-  GPR_ASSERT(ok);
+  GPR_ASSERT(GRPC_LOG_IF_ERROR(
+      "load_file", gpr_load_file("src/core/lib/tsi/test_creds/badserver.pem", 1,
+                                 &cert_slice)));
+  GPR_ASSERT(GRPC_LOG_IF_ERROR(
+      "load_file", gpr_load_file("src/core/lib/tsi/test_creds/badserver.key", 1,
+                                 &key_slice)));
   pem_key_cert_pair.private_key = (const char *)GPR_SLICE_START_PTR(key_slice);
   pem_key_cert_pair.cert_chain = (const char *)GPR_SLICE_START_PTR(cert_slice);
 
diff --git a/test/core/util/one_corpus_entry_fuzzer.c b/test/core/util/one_corpus_entry_fuzzer.c
index 41f9558211a..aeb2611f3f1 100644
--- a/test/core/util/one_corpus_entry_fuzzer.c
+++ b/test/core/util/one_corpus_entry_fuzzer.c
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@
 extern int LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(const uint8_t *data, size_t size);
 
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
-  int ok = 0;
-  gpr_slice buffer = gpr_load_file(argv[1], 0, &ok);
-  GPR_ASSERT(ok);
+  gpr_slice buffer;
+  GPR_ASSERT(
+      GRPC_LOG_IF_ERROR("load_file", gpr_load_file(argv[1], 0, &buffer)));
   LLVMFuzzerTestOneInput(GPR_SLICE_START_PTR(buffer), GPR_SLICE_LENGTH(buffer));
   gpr_slice_unref(buffer);
   return 0;