My code has many checks to detect errors in various cases (many conditions would result in the same error), inside a function returning an error struct. Instead of looking like this:

err_struct myfunc(...) {
    err_struct error = { .error = false };

    ...

    if(something) {
        error.error = true;
        error.description = "invalid input";
        return error;
    }

    ...

        case 1024:
            error.error = true;
            error.description = "invalid input";  // same error, but different detection scenario
            return error;
            break;  // don't comment on this break please (EDIT: pun unintended)
            ...

Is use of goto in the following context considered better than the previous example?

err_struct myfunc(...) {
    err_struct error = { .error = false };

    ...

    if(something) goto invalid_input;

    ...

        case 1024:
            goto invalid_input;
            break;

    return error;

    invalid_input:
        error.error = true;
        error.description = "invalid input";
        return error;