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This commit fixes a freeze on insertion of a Guitar Hero Live PS3/WiiU USB dongle. Indeed, with the current implementation, inserting one of those USB dongles will lead to a hard freeze. I apologize for not catching this earlier, it didn't occur on my old laptop. While the issue was isolated to memory alloc/free, I could not figure out why it causes a freeze. So this patch fixes this issue by simplifying memory allocation and usage. We remind that for the dongle to work properly, a control URB needs to be sent periodically. We used to alloc/free the URB each time this URB needed to be sent. With this patch, the memory for the URB is allocated on the probe, reused for as long as the dongle is plugged in, and freed once the dongle is unplugged. Signed-off-by: Pascal Giard <pascal.giard@etsmtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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