From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu (valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 13:52:29 -0400
Subject: staging:rtl8192u: Possible memory leak?
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On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 16:52:03 +0100, John Whitmore said:

> This might all be a mute point as I seem to remember someone saying
> that memory allocation never fails in Linux and this can only happen
> if the first two allocations work and the third fails.

If memory allocation never fails, it would be a moot point, not a mute point.

However, memory allocation can indeed fail, and often does.

And you are correct, there is a memory leak.  While looking at that, I found
another minor issue. Patch submitted.