When trying to transmit an data frame with tx_status to a destination
that have no route in the mesh, then it is dropped without recrediting
the ack_status_frames idr.
Once it is exhausted, wpa_supplicant starts failing to do SAE with
NL80211_CMD_FRAME and logs "nl80211: Frame command failed".
Use ieee80211_free_txskb() instead of kfree_skb() to fix it.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
index acc1c299f1ae..69d5e1ec6ede 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c
@@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ int mesh_path_send_to_gates(struct mesh_path *mpath)
void mesh_path_discard_frame(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- kfree_skb(skb);
+ ieee80211_free_txskb(&sdata->local->hw, skb);
sdata->u.mesh.mshstats.dropped_frames_no_route++;
}
--
2.37.2
