diff --git a/api/handler/acl.go b/api/handler/acl.go
index 86afb8e39..9308377de 100644
--- a/api/handler/acl.go
+++ b/api/handler/acl.go
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ func (h *handler) PutBucketACLHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			return
 		}
 	} else if err := xml.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(list); err != nil {
-		h.logAndSendError(w, "could not parse bucket acl", reqInfo, err)
+		h.logAndSendError(w, "could not parse bucket acl", reqInfo, errors.GetAPIError(errors.ErrMalformedXML))
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ func (h *handler) PutObjectACLHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 			return
 		}
 	} else if err := xml.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(list); err != nil {
-		h.logAndSendError(w, "could not parse bucket acl", reqInfo, err)
+		h.logAndSendError(w, "could not parse bucket acl", reqInfo, errors.GetAPIError(errors.ErrMalformedXML))
 		return
 	}
 
diff --git a/api/handler/delete.go b/api/handler/delete.go
index eb27ee796..281bbd115 100644
--- a/api/handler/delete.go
+++ b/api/handler/delete.go
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ func (h *handler) DeleteMultipleObjectsHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Re
 	// Unmarshal list of keys to be deleted.
 	requested := &DeleteObjectsRequest{}
 	if err := xml.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(requested); err != nil {
-		h.logAndSendError(w, "couldn't decode body", reqInfo, err)
+		h.logAndSendError(w, "couldn't decode body", reqInfo, errors.GetAPIError(errors.ErrMalformedXML))
 		return
 	}
 
diff --git a/api/handler/put.go b/api/handler/put.go
index d753b7191..0bd1f6097 100644
--- a/api/handler/put.go
+++ b/api/handler/put.go
@@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ func parseLocationConstraint(r *http.Request) (*createBucketParams, error) {
 
 	params := new(createBucketParams)
 	if err := xml.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(params); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
+		return nil, errors.GetAPIError(errors.ErrMalformedXML)
 	}
 	return params, nil
 }