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From: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: fix STA link removal during link removal
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:24:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <abrfz9t3DIu1PDPm@lore-desk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260318180622.9240067117e9.I45fb2b7f04d75e48d2f3e9c6650ef9f54a314f5b@changeid>

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> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> ieee80211_sta_free_link() only frees the link and doesn't
> unhash it, so it can't be used here. Instead this needs
> to use ieee80211_sta_remove_link(), which unhashes it. An
> argument against it was that it also calls the driver and
> that already happened, but calls to the driver removing a
> link that's already removed are suppressed, so that's not
> actually an issue. Use it to fix the hashtable.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
> Fixes: 84674b03d8bf ("wifi: mac80211: Remove deleted sta links in ieee80211_ml_reconf_work()")
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Thanks for fixing it.
Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@kernel.org>

> ---
>  net/mac80211/mlme.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> index f279bdb03aca..0cd8d07bf668 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c
> @@ -7119,7 +7119,7 @@ static void ieee80211_ml_reconf_work(struct wiphy *wiphy,
>  
>  		for_each_set_bit(link_id, &removed_links,
>  				 IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS)
> -			ieee80211_sta_free_link(sta, link_id);
> +			ieee80211_sta_remove_link(sta, link_id);
>  	}
>  
>  	new_dormant_links = sdata->vif.dormant_links & ~sdata->u.mgd.removed_links;
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-18 17:06 [PATCH wireless-next] wifi: mac80211: fix STA link removal during link removal Johannes Berg
2026-03-18 17:24 ` Lorenzo Bianconi [this message]

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