This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: mac80211: Fix ack frame idr leak when mesh has no route to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-mac80211-fix-ack-frame-idr-leak-when-mesh-has-n.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 77d79495f6f5387698282546b5afaecc254424ae Author: Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 27 16:01:33 2022 +0200 wifi: mac80211: Fix ack frame idr leak when mesh has no route [ Upstream commit 39e7b5de9853bd92ddbfa4b14165babacd7da0ba ] 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> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221027140133.1504-1-nicolas.cavallari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c index 870c8eafef92..c2b051e0610a 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ 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++; }