From 4c3baa4a949ab9dbd59ee6eafd1686373a6d3929 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: g3rk6 <g3rk6@icloud.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:56:20 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed the issue of incorrect defer and error checking order.
 The error checking must be first otherwise it will cause panic.

---
 viper.go | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/viper.go b/viper.go
index 8625687..b9b5331 100644
--- a/viper.go
+++ b/viper.go
@@ -1082,11 +1082,10 @@ func (v *Viper) SaveConfig() error {
 	}
 
 	f, err := os.Create(v.getConfigFile())
-	defer f.Close()
-
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	defer f.Close()
 
 	switch v.getConfigType() {
 	case "json":