NFC: use after free on error

We returned a freed variable on some error paths when the intent was
to return a NULL.  Part of the reason this was missed was that the
code was confusing because it had too many gotos so I removed them
and simplified the flow a bit.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Lauro Ramos Venancio <lauro.venancio@openbossa.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>