1. Check for allocation failure
2. Clear the buffer contents, as they may actually be written to flash
3. Don't leak the buffer

Compile-tested only.

[ Tested successfully on my buggy ASUS machine - Matt ]
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>