[PATCH] fix error handling in drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c

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John notes that if the kzalloc of ieee->pHTInfo fails, we fail to call
ieee80211_networks_free().  In addition, that function has an un-needed check
before kfree().

Reported-by: John Whitmore <arigead@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
index 90a097f2cd4e..97ff0371b5bb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211_module.c
@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ static inline int ieee80211_networks_allocate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
 
 static inline void ieee80211_networks_free(struct ieee80211_device *ieee)
 {
-	if (!ieee->networks)
-		return;
 	kfree(ieee->networks);
 	ieee->networks = NULL;
 }
@@ -180,6 +178,7 @@ struct net_device *alloc_ieee80211(int sizeof_priv)
 	return dev;
 
  failed:
+	ieee80211_networks_free(ieee);
 	if (dev)
 		free_netdev(dev);
 

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