From 7c26e11d6f01aeed13ff194843aa91c64463e91c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ted Yu <yute@vmware.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:14:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Properly close the file in makeFile

---
 pkg/volume/hostpath/host_path.go | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/volume/hostpath/host_path.go b/pkg/volume/hostpath/host_path.go
index ffc4e7d7bdf..ecc66675257 100644
--- a/pkg/volume/hostpath/host_path.go
+++ b/pkg/volume/hostpath/host_path.go
@@ -489,7 +489,9 @@ func makeDir(pathname string) error {
 // If pathname already exists, whether a file or directory, no error is returned.
 func makeFile(pathname string) error {
 	f, err := os.OpenFile(pathname, os.O_CREATE, os.FileMode(0644))
-	defer f.Close()
+	if f != nil {
+		f.Close()
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		if !os.IsExist(err) {
 			return err