From 820b8cff81c796ba20573e04722ab62500713f97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Escande Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:58:30 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] wifi: ath11k: cleanup arsta in ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all() 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 cleaned up beforehand. This cleanup is supposedly done by ath11k_mac_peer_cleanup_all() but does not in fact free arsta->rx_stats / tx_stats. 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 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01977-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande Reviewed-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731145830.769811-1-nico.escande@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson --- 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; }