diff --git a/QMP/qmp-shell b/QMP/qmp-shell
index d126e63ad1..73cb3b6cef 100755
--- a/QMP/qmp-shell
+++ b/QMP/qmp-shell
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ class QMPShell(qmp.QEMUMonitorProtocol):
         for arg in cmdargs[1:]:
             opt = arg.split('=')
             try:
+                if(len(opt) > 2):
+                    opt[1] = '='.join(opt[1:])
                 value = int(opt[1])
             except ValueError:
                 if opt[1] == 'true':
diff --git a/tests/test-visitor-serialization.c b/tests/test-visitor-serialization.c
index e84926f97c..8c8adac6a9 100644
--- a/tests/test-visitor-serialization.c
+++ b/tests/test-visitor-serialization.c
@@ -657,11 +657,16 @@ static void qmp_deserialize(void **native_out, void *datap,
                             VisitorFunc visit, Error **errp)
 {
     QmpSerializeData *d = datap;
-    QString *output_json = qobject_to_json(qmp_output_get_qobject(d->qov));
-    QObject *obj = qobject_from_json(qstring_get_str(output_json));
+    QString *output_json;
+    QObject *obj_orig, *obj;
+
+    obj_orig = qmp_output_get_qobject(d->qov);
+    output_json = qobject_to_json(obj_orig);
+    obj = qobject_from_json(qstring_get_str(output_json));
 
     QDECREF(output_json);
     d->qiv = qmp_input_visitor_new(obj);
+    qobject_decref(obj_orig);
     qobject_decref(obj);
     visit(qmp_input_get_visitor(d->qiv), native_out, errp);
 }