This kmemleaks appears after inserting and removing a "Terratec Cinergy T USB XXS (HD)/ T3" in/from my ThinkPad T400 runnign a stable Gentoo Linux : tfoerste@n22 ~ $ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xf399c860 (size 32): comm "modprobe", pid 15622, jiffies 25570567 (age 426.808s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<c1232647>] kmemleak_alloc+0x27/0x50 [<c109cc9f>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x9f/0xe0 [<fc14f91d>] dib0700_rc_setup+0x7d/0x120 [dvb_usb_dib0700] [<fc14fa54>] dib0700_probe+0x94/0xb0 [dvb_usb_dib0700] [<f81015d4>] usb_probe_interface+0xf4/0x1c0 [usbcore] [<c118bd7b>] driver_probe_device+0x7b/0x190 [<c118bf21>] __driver_attach+0x91/0xa0 [<c118b638>] bus_for_each_dev+0x48/0x70 [<c118bc09>] driver_attach+0x19/0x20 [<c118b017>] bus_add_driver+0x187/0x250 [<c118c1b5>] driver_register+0x65/0x120 [<f81012bc>] usb_register_driver+0x7c/0x140 [usbcore] [<fc15e030>] 0xfc15e030 [<c100112d>] do_one_initcall+0x2d/0x180 [<c105f269>] sys_init_module+0x99/0x1e0 [<c1002d97>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x26
This bug relates to a very old kernel. Closing as obsolete.