Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 15:09 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: >> Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> writes: >> > On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 14:27 +0100, Johan Hovold wrote: >> > >> >> It looks like it's never freed in the alloc_fail8 error path of probe, >> >> though. >> > >> > Indeed. A case of the coder being blind to his own code. >> > Patch is forthcoming. >> >> Why does the driver have to allocate anything at all for this purpose? >> Couldn't it just save a pointer to the country functional descriptor, >> and let the "show" functions decode that when necessary? > > The show method would have to deal with a race against disconnect(). How is that different with the additional allocation? Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
