diff --git a/src/slurmctld/reservation.c b/src/slurmctld/reservation.c
index 2576d5557f2ff1fa36926a49d198e91f3e0f05ac..212e3c9fdc69ccf8a868891847dd401eeadc4bf1 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/reservation.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/reservation.c
@@ -1733,7 +1733,7 @@ extern int create_resv(resv_desc_msg_t *resv_desc_ptr)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Sort the list of jobs in descending order */
+	/* Sort the list of node counts in order descending size */
 	if (resv_desc_ptr->node_cnt) {
 		for (i = 0; resv_desc_ptr->node_cnt[i]; i++) {
 			int max_inx = i;
@@ -3140,13 +3140,14 @@ static int  _select_nodes(resv_desc_msg_t *resv_desc_ptr,
 		bit_and(node_bitmap, avail_node_bitmap);
 	}
 
-	/* If *resv_bitmap exists we probably don't need to delete it,
-	   when it gets created off of node_bitmap it will be the
-	   same, but just to be safe we do. */
+	/* If *resv_bitmap exists we probably don't need to delete it, when it
+	 * gets created off of node_bitmap it will be the same, but just to be
+	 * safe we do. */
 	FREE_NULL_BITMAP(*resv_bitmap);
-	if (rc == SLURM_SUCCESS)
+	if (rc == SLURM_SUCCESS) {
 		*resv_bitmap = _pick_idle_nodes(node_bitmap,
 						resv_desc_ptr, core_bitmap);
+	}
 	FREE_NULL_BITMAP(node_bitmap);
 	if (*resv_bitmap == NULL) {
 		if (rc == SLURM_SUCCESS)
@@ -3154,8 +3155,7 @@ static int  _select_nodes(resv_desc_msg_t *resv_desc_ptr,
 		return rc;
 	}
 
-	/* Same thing as the *resv_bitmap, might as well keep them in
-	   sync */
+	/* Same thing as the *resv_bitmap, might as well keep them in sync */
 	xfree(resv_desc_ptr->node_list);
 	resv_desc_ptr->node_list = bitmap2node_name(*resv_bitmap);