[PATCH 4.14 03/77] wifi: mac80211: Fix ack frame idr leak when mesh has no route

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-12-05T19:14:37Z

From: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr>

[ Upstream commit 39e7b5de9853bd92ddbfa4b14165babacd7da0ba ]

When trying to transmit an data frame with tx_status to a destination
that have no route in the mesh, then it is dropped without recrediting
the ack_status_frames idr.

Once it is exhausted, wpa_supplicant starts failing to do SAE with
NL80211_CMD_FRAME and logs "nl80211: Frame command failed".

Use ieee80211_free_txskb() instead of kfree_skb() to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221027140133.1504-1-nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
index 54d44836dd28..e4c62b0a3fdb 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ int mesh_path_send_to_gates(struct mesh_path *mpath)
void mesh_path_discard_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ ieee80211_free_txskb(&sdata->local->hw, skb);
sdata->u.mesh.mshstats.dropped_frames_no_route++;
}

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2.35.1