From d8e3c1d434c301adc8eecff6bf92f3768b57d72d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg <2653109+glinton@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 11:51:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Prevent panic in influxdb_listener (#4997)

---
 plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/http_listener.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/http_listener.go b/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/http_listener.go
index b8abeecd7..29f055b53 100644
--- a/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/http_listener.go
+++ b/plugins/inputs/influxdb_listener/http_listener.go
@@ -254,12 +254,12 @@ func (h *HTTPListener) serveWrite(res http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 	if req.Header.Get("Content-Encoding") == "gzip" {
 		var err error
 		body, err = gzip.NewReader(req.Body)
-		defer body.Close()
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Println("D! " + err.Error())
 			badRequest(res, err.Error())
 			return
 		}
+		defer body.Close()
 	}
 	body = http.MaxBytesReader(res, body, h.MaxBodySize.Size)