* [PATCH ath-current v2] wifi: ath11k: cleanup arsta in ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all()
@ 2026-07-30 14:02 Nicolas Escande
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From: Nicolas Escande @ 2026-07-30 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ath11k; +Cc: linux-wireless
When mac80211 removes a sta, it calls .sta_state() which in turn calls
ath11k_mac_station_remove(). In that function we clean up both peers &
arsta related resources.
But when the firmware crashes, ath11k calls ieee80211_restart_hw(), which
assumes that all driver related resources are cleanup up beforehand. This
cleanup is supposedly done by ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all() but does not
in fact free arsta->rx_stats / tx_stats.
So lets extract the arsta cleanup from ath11k_mac_station_remove() into a
new ath11k_mac_station_cleanup() and call it from both there and
ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all().
This should handle kmemleaks reports like:
unreferenced object 0xffffff801ae66400 (size 1024):
comm "hostapd", pid 1306, jiffies 4295011565
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc d61c08ec):
kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0x50
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2b0/0x3e0
ath11k_mac_op_sta_state+0x1dc/0xb10
drv_sta_state+0xac/0x6f8
sta_info_insert_rcu+0x314/0x5e0
sta_info_insert+0x14/0x38
ieee80211_add_station+0x10c/0x1a0
nl80211_new_station+0x3e8/0x680
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xc0/0x120
genl_rcv_msg+0x1b4/0x258
netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x108
genl_rcv+0x38/0x60
netlink_unicast+0x190/0x278
netlink_sendmsg+0x15c/0x370
____sys_sendmsg+0x120/0x290
___sys_sendmsg+0x70/0xa0
Tested-on: QCN9074 PCI WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01977-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Fixes: 9d5f28c1366f ("wifi: ath11k: fix connection failure due to unexpected peer delete")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande@gmail.com>
---
Note: this problem is in fact older that the referenced commit, but as
it would need another patch to backport to older kernel and the leak is
quite minimal & seldom happens, I was hopping to not have to do it.
v2:
- rebased on ath/master
- no code change
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
index 2d55cdc4d165..ae91b57c8422 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/mac.c
@@ -873,6 +873,22 @@ static int ath11k_mac_set_kickout(struct ath11k_vif *arvif)
return 0;
}
+static void ath11k_mac_station_cleanup(struct ieee80211_sta *sta)
+{
+ struct ath11k_sta *arsta;
+
+ if (!sta)
+ return;
+
+ arsta = ath11k_sta_to_arsta(sta);
+
+ kfree(arsta->tx_stats);
+ arsta->tx_stats = NULL;
+
+ kfree(arsta->rx_stats);
+ arsta->rx_stats = NULL;
+}
+
void ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all(struct ath11k *ar)
{
struct ath11k_peer *peer, *tmp;
@@ -885,6 +901,7 @@ void ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all(struct ath11k *ar)
list_for_each_entry_safe(peer, tmp, &ab->peers, list) {
ath11k_peer_rx_tid_cleanup(ar, peer);
ath11k_peer_rhash_delete(ab, peer);
+ ath11k_mac_station_cleanup(peer->sta);
list_del(&peer->list);
kfree(peer);
}
@@ -9892,7 +9909,6 @@ static int ath11k_mac_station_remove(struct ath11k *ar,
{
struct ath11k_base *ab = ar->ab;
struct ath11k_vif *arvif = ath11k_vif_to_arvif(vif);
- struct ath11k_sta *arsta = ath11k_sta_to_arsta(sta);
int ret;
if (ab->hw_params.vdev_start_delay &&
@@ -9916,12 +9932,7 @@ static int ath11k_mac_station_remove(struct ath11k *ar,
sta->addr, arvif->vdev_id);
ath11k_mac_dec_num_stations(arvif, sta);
-
- kfree(arsta->tx_stats);
- arsta->tx_stats = NULL;
-
- kfree(arsta->rx_stats);
- arsta->rx_stats = NULL;
+ ath11k_mac_station_cleanup(sta);
return ret;
}
--
2.55.0
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