firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()

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    "title": "firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info() The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise there may be resource leak here. To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc fails.",
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