Karthikeyan Kathirvel <quic_kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> When a station idles for a long time, hostapd will try to send
> a QoS Null frame to the station as "poll". NL80211_CMD_PROBE_CLIENT
> is used for this purpose.
> And the skb will be added to ack_status_frame - waiting for a
> completion via ieee80211_report_ack_skb().
>
> But when the peer was already removed before the tx_complete arrives,
> the peer will be missing. And when using dev_kfree_skb_any (instead
> of going through mac80211), the entry will stay inside
> ack_status_frames thus not clean up related information in its
> internal data structures. This IDR will therefore run full after
> 8K request were generated for such clients.
> At this point, the access point will then just stall and not allow
> any new clients because idr_alloc() for ack_status_frame will fail.
>
> ieee80211_free_txskb() on the other hand will (when required) call
> ieee80211_report_ack_skb() and make sure that (when required) remove
> the entry from the ack_status_frame and clean up related
> information in its internal data structures.
>
> Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0.1-00029-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>
> Fixes: d889913205cf ("wifi: ath12k: driver for Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices")
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sarika Sharma <quic_sarishar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <quic_kathirve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802-ath11k-ack_status_leak-v2-1-c0af729d6229@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
2 patches applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.
5453bbd6fef4 wifi: ath12k: Don't drop tx_status in failure case
50971dc6694c wifi: ath12k: drop failed transmitted frames from metric calculation.
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