---
title: "deferred-recover-call"
description: "Defer a function that calls recover instead of deferring recover directly."
image: "https://strider.gempir.com/og.png"
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# deferred-recover-call

**Default severity:** `error`

`recover` only stops a panic when it is called from a deferred function. A
direct `defer recover()` evaluates `recover` while scheduling the defer, so it
cannot recover the later panic.

## Bad

```go
defer recover()
```

## Good

```go
defer func() {
	_ = recover()
}()
```

Source: https://strider.gempir.com/lints/deferred-recover-call/index.mdx