From: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: cleanup error path of ieee80211_do_open
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:20:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260320142021.0e7b1f5cdd02.Idac5c38d5ad7ce97782a8c05ae72bb0c689c4fa9@changeid> (raw)
If we failed on drv_start, we currently cleanup AP_VLAN reference to
bss.
But this is not needed, since AP_VLAN must be tied to a pre-existing AP
interface, so open_count cannot be 0, so we will never call drv_start
for AP_VLAN interfaces.
Remove these cleanup and return immediately instead.
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
---
net/mac80211/iface.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c
index 232fc0b80e44..234de4762be5 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/iface.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c
@@ -1361,8 +1361,6 @@ int ieee80211_do_open(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool coming_up)
break;
}
case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
- sdata->bss = &sdata->u.ap;
- break;
case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION:
case NL80211_IFTYPE_MONITOR:
@@ -1387,8 +1385,13 @@ int ieee80211_do_open(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool coming_up)
local->reconfig_failure = false;
res = drv_start(local);
- if (res)
- goto err_del_bss;
+ if (res) {
+ /*
+ * no need to worry about AP_VLAN cleanup since in that
+ * case we can't have open_count == 0
+ */
+ return res;
+ }
ieee80211_led_radio(local, true);
ieee80211_mod_tpt_led_trig(local,
IEEE80211_TPT_LEDTRIG_FL_RADIO, 0);
@@ -1459,6 +1462,9 @@ int ieee80211_do_open(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool coming_up)
netif_carrier_on(dev);
list_add_tail_rcu(&sdata->u.mntr.list, &local->mon_list);
break;
+ case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+ sdata->bss = &sdata->u.ap;
+ fallthrough;
default:
if (coming_up) {
ieee80211_del_virtual_monitor(local);
@@ -1547,10 +1553,10 @@ int ieee80211_do_open(struct wireless_dev *wdev, bool coming_up)
err_stop:
if (!local->open_count)
drv_stop(local, false);
- err_del_bss:
- sdata->bss = NULL;
if (sdata->vif.type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)
list_del(&sdata->u.vlan.list);
+ /* Might not be initialized yet, but it is harmless */
+ sdata->bss = NULL;
return res;
}
--
2.34.1
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