From: greearb@candelatech.com
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: [RFC 2/2] wifi: iwlwifi: mld: Support force-cleanup op
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 16:01:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260307000131.2527892-2-greearb@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260307000131.2527892-1-greearb@candelatech.com>
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This lets mac80211 force the driver to clean up any lingering
configuration, fixing use-after-free in case of unrecoverable
hardware failure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mac80211.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mac80211.c
index 4102ee924757..d9ba77eb20eb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mld/mac80211.c
@@ -500,6 +500,18 @@ iwl_mld_restart_cleanup(struct iwl_mld *mld)
ieee80211_wake_queues(mld->hw);
}
+/* mac80211 thinks our driver/firmware/hardware has crashed
+ * and cannot be recovered. Force clean any existing configuration
+ * (stas, etc), as mac80211 will not attempt further cleanup.
+ */
+static void iwl_mld_mac80211_force_cleanup(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
+{
+ struct iwl_mld *mld = IWL_MAC80211_GET_MLD(hw);
+
+ IWL_ERR(mld, "mac80211-force-cleanup called, calling mld_restart_cleanup.\n");
+ iwl_mld_restart_cleanup(mld);
+}
+
static
int iwl_mld_mac80211_start(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
{
@@ -2963,6 +2975,7 @@ const struct ieee80211_ops iwl_mld_hw_ops = {
.start = iwl_mld_mac80211_start,
.stop = iwl_mld_mac80211_stop,
.config = iwl_mld_mac80211_config,
+ .force_cleanup = iwl_mld_mac80211_force_cleanup,
.add_interface = iwl_mld_mac80211_add_interface,
.remove_interface = iwl_mld_mac80211_remove_interface,
.conf_tx = iwl_mld_mac80211_conf_tx,
--
2.42.0
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2026-03-07 0:01 [RFC 1/2] wifi: mac80211: Add force-cleanup call to driver greearb
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