When ieee80211_init_rate_ctrl_alg() failed in ieee80211_register_hw(), it doesn't release local->fq. The memory leakage information is as follows: unreferenced object 0xffff888109cad400 (size 512): comm "insmod", pid 15145, jiffies 4295005736 (age 3670.100s) 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: [<00000000d1eb4a9f>] __kmalloc+0x3e/0xb0 [<00000000befc3e34>] ieee80211_txq_setup_flows+0x1fe/0xa10 [<00000000b13f1457>] ieee80211_register_hw+0x1b64/0x3950 [<00000000ba9f4e99>] 0xffffffffa02214db [<00000000833435c0>] 0xffffffffa024048d [<00000000a4ddd6ef>] do_one_initcall+0x10f/0x630 [<0000000068f29e16>] do_init_module+0x19f/0x5e0 [<00000000f52609b6>] load_module+0x64b7/0x6eb0 [<00000000b628a5b3>] __do_sys_finit_module+0x140/0x200 [<00000000c7f35d15>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80 [<0000000044d8d0fd>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 Fixes: a50e5fb8db83 ("mac80211: fix a kernel panic when TXing after TXQ teardown") Signed-off-by: Zhengchao Shao <shaozhengchao@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/iface.c | 2 -- net/mac80211/main.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/iface.c b/net/mac80211/iface.c index 46f08ec5ed76..cec6dd577241 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/iface.c +++ b/net/mac80211/iface.c @@ -2326,8 +2326,6 @@ void ieee80211_remove_interfaces(struct ieee80211_local *local) WARN(local->open_count, "%s: open count remains %d\n", wiphy_name(local->hw.wiphy), local->open_count); - ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local); - mutex_lock(&local->iflist_mtx); list_for_each_entry_safe(sdata, tmp, &local->interfaces, list) { list_del(&sdata->list); diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c index 02b5abc7326b..b6620c5fd9e0 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/main.c +++ b/net/mac80211/main.c @@ -1435,6 +1435,7 @@ int ieee80211_register_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) ieee80211_remove_interfaces(local); rtnl_unlock(); fail_rate: + ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local); fail_flows: ieee80211_led_exit(local); destroy_workqueue(local->workqueue); @@ -1469,6 +1470,7 @@ void ieee80211_unregister_hw(struct ieee80211_hw *hw) * because the driver cannot be handing us frames any * more and the tasklet is killed. */ + ieee80211_txq_teardown_flows(local); ieee80211_remove_interfaces(local); rtnl_unlock(); -- 2.17.1