peerconn.go | 2 +-
 torrent.go  | 4 ++--

diff --git a/peerconn.go b/peerconn.go
index 5d1f718b55ba97e64c11ba97ab8bd92e08a61238..fda3b95fcdb093b2b105e41776a35d13355288a7 100644
--- a/peerconn.go
+++ b/peerconn.go
@@ -1030,7 +1030,7 @@
 	decoder := pp.Decoder{
 		R:         bufio.NewReaderSize(c.r, 1<<17),
 		MaxLength: 256 * 1024,
-		Pool:      t.chunkPool,
+		Pool:      &t.chunkPool,
 	}
 	for {
 		var msg pp.Message
diff --git a/torrent.go b/torrent.go
index 70a8a9e1b7eb634cea7f8324389f4541033a8b8b..b719529f846b8ed5311da2d208a56d54a98afe6a 100644
--- a/torrent.go
+++ b/torrent.go
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ 	pieceStateChanges *pubsub.PubSub
 	// The size of chunks to request from peers over the wire. This is
 	// normally 16KiB by convention these days.
 	chunkSize pp.Integer
-	chunkPool *sync.Pool
+	chunkPool sync.Pool
 	// Total length of the torrent in bytes. Stored because it's not O(1) to
 	// get this from the info dict.
 	length *int64
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ }
 
 func (t *Torrent) setChunkSize(size pp.Integer) {
 	t.chunkSize = size
-	t.chunkPool = &sync.Pool{
+	t.chunkPool = sync.Pool{
 		New: func() interface{} {
 			b := make([]byte, size)
 			return &b