Re: [PATCH] tablet: acecad: update the reference count of the usb interface structure

From: Salah Triki
Date: Wed Jul 28 2021 - 20:54:36 EST


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 03:37:56PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This commit message doesn't say what the user visible effects are. If
> you encountered this bug at runtime then please put the stack trace in
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>

I made this patch based on the following documentation of
usb_get_intf():

[quote]
Each live reference to a interface must be refcounted.

Drivers for USB interfaces should normally record such references
in their probe methods, when they bind to an interface, and release them
by calling usb_put_intf, in their disconnect methods.

[/quote]

Thanx