From f24c7e803f0a14d35e2bb40a2ed838c80b8cf2e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lars Lehtonen <lars.lehtonen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2023 07:21:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] weed/storage/erasure_coding: Close() after error handling

---
 weed/storage/erasure_coding/ec_test.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/weed/storage/erasure_coding/ec_test.go b/weed/storage/erasure_coding/ec_test.go
index 676ebdf2c..aa46cf6d4 100644
--- a/weed/storage/erasure_coding/ec_test.go
+++ b/weed/storage/erasure_coding/ec_test.go
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ func TestEncodingDecoding(t *testing.T) {
 
 func validateFiles(baseFileName string) error {
 	nm, err := readNeedleMap(baseFileName)
-	defer nm.Close()
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("readNeedleMap: %v", err)
 	}
+	defer nm.Close()
 
 	datFile, err := os.OpenFile(baseFileName+".dat", os.O_RDONLY, 0)
 	if err != nil {