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Date:	Wed, 4 Jan 2012 10:20:41 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Jan Steinhoff <mail@...-steinhoff.de>,
	Alessandro Rubini <rubini@...vis.unipv.it>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: Synaptics USB device driver

Am Mittwoch, 4. Januar 2012, 09:55:19 schrieb Jiri Kosina:
> On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Jan Steinhoff wrote:
> 
> [ ... snip ... ]
> > +static int synusb_setup_iurb(struct synusb *synusb,
> > +                          struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *endpoint)
> > +{
> > +     char *buf;
> > +
> > +     if (endpoint->wMaxPacketSize < 8)
> > +             return 0;
> > +     if (synusb->iurb) {
> > +             synusb_warn(synusb, "Found more than one possible "
> > +                                 "int in endpoint");
> > +             return 0;
> > +     }
> > +     synusb->iurb = usb_alloc_urb(0, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +     if (synusb->iurb == NULL)
> > +             return -ENOMEM;
> > +     buf = usb_alloc_coherent(synusb->udev, 8, GFP_ATOMIC,
> > +                              &synusb->iurb->transfer_dma);
> > +     if (buf == NULL)
> > +             return -ENOMEM;
> 
> You seem to leak synusb->iurb here.

Seems so, but doesn't. It gets freed when the refcount hits 0.
Now, whether this is a good technique is another question.

	Regards
		Oliver
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