diff --git a/board/freescale/common/imx/post-image.sh b/board/freescale/common/imx/post-image.sh
index a440bfb75c..8d9bce5328 100755
--- a/board/freescale/common/imx/post-image.sh
+++ b/board/freescale/common/imx/post-image.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
+set -e
+
 #
 # dtb_list extracts the list of DTB files from BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME
 # in ${BR_CONFIG}, then prints the corresponding list of file names for the