* [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding
@ 2026-04-20 11:01 Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez
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From: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez @ 2026-04-20 11:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: jjohnson
Cc: linux-wireless, ath11k, linux-kernel,
Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez, stable
If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware,
the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released.
However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath11k_pci),
and we get:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6231 at mm/slub.c:4368 free_large_kmalloc+0x57/0x90
Call Trace:
free_large_kmalloc
ath11k_dp_free
ath11k_core_deinit
ath11k_pci_remove
...
The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing
initialization is failing.
In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in
order to avoid the double free.
Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c
index bbb86f165141..5a50b623bd07 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp.c
@@ -1040,6 +1040,7 @@ void ath11k_dp_free(struct ath11k_base *ab)
idr_destroy(&dp->tx_ring[i].txbuf_idr);
spin_unlock_bh(&dp->tx_ring[i].tx_idr_lock);
kfree(dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status);
+ dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status = NULL;
}
/* Deinit any SOC level resource */
--
2.53.0
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