Fix Firmware Check Error Path to Prevent Memory Leak

CVE-2024-36942

What is CVE-2024-36942?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: qca: fix firmware check error path

A recent commit fixed the code that parses the firmware files before downloading them to the controller but introduced a memory leak in case the sanity checks ever fail.

Make sure to free the firmware buffer before returning on errors.

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