diff --git a/cmd/cloud.go b/cmd/cloud.go
index 59e9d0a85a69..ad0f4be69cf5 100644
--- a/cmd/cloud.go
+++ b/cmd/cloud.go
@@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ func (c *cmdCloud) run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 			globalCancel()
 		}()
 	}
-	hardStop := func(sig os.Signal) {
+	onHardStop := func(sig os.Signal) {
 		logger.WithField("sig", sig).Error("Aborting k6 in response to signal, we won't wait for the test to end.")
 	}
-	stopSignalHandling := handleTestAbortSignals(c.gs, gracefulStop, hardStop)
+	stopSignalHandling := handleTestAbortSignals(c.gs, gracefulStop, onHardStop)
 	defer stopSignalHandling()
 
 	et, err := lib.NewExecutionTuple(test.derivedConfig.ExecutionSegment, test.derivedConfig.ExecutionSegmentSequence)
diff --git a/cmd/common.go b/cmd/common.go
index 5d39fd950bdb..47e515552708 100644
--- a/cmd/common.go
+++ b/cmd/common.go
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func printToStdout(gs *globalState, s string) {
 }
 
 // Trap Interrupts, SIGINTs and SIGTERMs and call the given.
-func handleTestAbortSignals(gs *globalState, firstHandler, secondHandler func(os.Signal)) (stop func()) {
+func handleTestAbortSignals(gs *globalState, gracefulStopHandler, onHardStop func(os.Signal)) (stop func()) {
 	sigC := make(chan os.Signal, 2)
 	done := make(chan struct{})
 	gs.signalNotify(sigC, os.Interrupt, syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
@@ -100,15 +100,15 @@ func handleTestAbortSignals(gs *globalState, firstHandler, secondHandler func(os
 	go func() {
 		select {
 		case sig := <-sigC:
-			firstHandler(sig)
+			gracefulStopHandler(sig)
 		case <-done:
 			return
 		}
 
 		select {
 		case sig := <-sigC:
-			if secondHandler != nil {
-				secondHandler(sig)
+			if onHardStop != nil {
+				onHardStop(sig)
 			}
 			// If we get a second signal, we immediately exit, so something like
 			// https://github.com/k6io/k6/issues/971 never happens again
diff --git a/cmd/run.go b/cmd/run.go
index 2e868fcd4489..fe2f9eb60e33 100644
--- a/cmd/run.go
+++ b/cmd/run.go
@@ -177,11 +177,11 @@ func (c *cmdRun) run(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 		logger.WithField("sig", sig).Debug("Stopping k6 in response to signal...")
 		lingerCancel() // stop the test run, metric processing is cancelled below
 	}
-	hardStop := func(sig os.Signal) {
+	onHardStop := func(sig os.Signal) {
 		logger.WithField("sig", sig).Error("Aborting k6 in response to signal")
 		globalCancel() // not that it matters, given the following command...
 	}
-	stopSignalHandling := handleTestAbortSignals(c.gs, gracefulStop, hardStop)
+	stopSignalHandling := handleTestAbortSignals(c.gs, gracefulStop, onHardStop)
 	defer stopSignalHandling()
 
 	// Initialize the engine