The driver allocates memory to store the firmware image; however, that
memory is never released. The kmemleak facility was used to find this
error.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <larry.fin...@lwfinger.net>
---
 drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c 
b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
index 3b28754..a5b7fc4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/fw.c
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ int rtl88eu_download_fw(struct adapter *adapt)
        _rtl88e_enable_fw_download(adapt, false);
 
        err = _rtl88e_fw_free_to_go(adapt);
+       kfree(pfwdata);
 
        return err;
 }
-- 
2.1.2

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