FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nl80211: Move ACL parsing later to avoid a possible memory" failed to apply to 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

>From 6e8ef842223b90a33efd570128bb566a9ae6f5ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 13:44:51 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] nl80211: Move ACL parsing later to avoid a possible memory
 leak

No support for pbss results in a memory leak for the acl_data
(if parse_acl_data succeeds). Fix this by moving the ACL parsing later.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 34d505193bd10 ("cfg80211: basic support for PBSS network type")
Signed-off-by: Purushottam Kushwaha <pkushwah@qti.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>

diff --git a/net/wireless/nl80211.c b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
index d7599014055d..7d72283901a3 100644
--- a/net/wireless/nl80211.c
+++ b/net/wireless/nl80211.c
@@ -3487,16 +3487,16 @@ static int nl80211_start_ap(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		params.smps_mode = NL80211_SMPS_OFF;
 	}
 
+	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
+	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	if (info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_ACL_POLICY]) {
 		params.acl = parse_acl_data(&rdev->wiphy, info);
 		if (IS_ERR(params.acl))
 			return PTR_ERR(params.acl);
 	}
 
-	params.pbss = nla_get_flag(info->attrs[NL80211_ATTR_PBSS]);
-	if (params.pbss && !rdev->wiphy.bands[NL80211_BAND_60GHZ])
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
 	wdev_lock(wdev);
 	err = rdev_start_ap(rdev, dev, &params);
 	if (!err) {