/* use the new buffer we have */
                old_request_buffer = srb->request_buffer;
-               srb->request_buffer = srb->sense_buffer;
+               srb->request_buffer = us->sensebuf;
 
                /* set the buffer length for transfer */
                old_request_bufflen = srb->request_bufflen;
-               srb->request_bufflen = 18;
+               srb->request_bufflen = US_SENSE_SIZE;
 
                /* set up for no scatter-gather use */
                old_sg = srb->use_sg;
                temp_result = us->transport(us->srb, us);
 
                /* let's clean up right away */
+               memcpy(srb->sense_buffer, us->sensebuf, US_SENSE_SIZE);
                srb->resid = old_resid;
                srb->request_buffer = old_request_buffer;
                srb->request_bufflen = old_request_bufflen;
 
                US_DEBUGP("I/O buffer allocation failed\n");
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
+
+       us->sensebuf = kmalloc(US_SENSE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!us->sensebuf) {
+               US_DEBUGP("Sense buffer allocation failed\n");
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       }
        return 0;
 }
 
 {
        US_DEBUGP("-- %s\n", __FUNCTION__);
 
+       kfree(us->sensebuf);
+
        /* Free the device-related DMA-mapped buffers */
        if (us->cr)
                usb_buffer_free(us->pusb_dev, sizeof(*us->cr), us->cr,
 
  */
 
 #define US_IOBUF_SIZE          64      /* Size of the DMA-mapped I/O buffer */
+#define US_SENSE_SIZE          18      /* Size of the autosense data buffer */
 
 typedef int (*trans_cmnd)(struct scsi_cmnd *, struct us_data*);
 typedef int (*trans_reset)(struct us_data*);
        struct usb_ctrlrequest  *cr;             /* control requests     */
        struct usb_sg_request   current_sg;      /* scatter-gather req.  */
        unsigned char           *iobuf;          /* I/O buffer           */
+       unsigned char           *sensebuf;       /* sense data buffer    */
        dma_addr_t              cr_dma;          /* buffer DMA addresses */
        dma_addr_t              iobuf_dma;