From 93aab60d475dc608d04a0d65c7b53918a9c16625 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cristy <urban-warrior@imagemagick.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2018 11:35:44 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 
 https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=33466

---
 MagickWand/operation.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/MagickWand/operation.c b/MagickWand/operation.c
index 76748d703..4f7e045d8 100644
--- a/MagickWand/operation.c
+++ b/MagickWand/operation.c
@@ -3115,14 +3115,14 @@ static MagickBooleanType CLISimpleOperatorImage(MagickCLI *cli_wand,
         }
       if (LocaleCompare("region",option+1) == 0)
         {
-          if (IsGeometry(arg1) == MagickFalse)
-            CLIWandExceptArgBreak(OptionError,"InvalidArgument",option,arg1);
           if (*option == '+')
             {
               (void) SetImageRegionMask(_image,WritePixelMask,
                 (const RectangleInfo *) NULL,_exception);
               break;
             }
+          if (IsGeometry(arg1) == MagickFalse)
+            CLIWandExceptArgBreak(OptionError,"InvalidArgument",option,arg1);
           (void) ParseGravityGeometry(_image,arg1,&geometry,_exception);
           (void) SetImageRegionMask(_image,WritePixelMask,&geometry,_exception);
           break;
-- 
2.40.0