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. 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.

Tested-on: IPQ6018 hw1.0 WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Fixes: 6257c702264c ("wifi: ath11k: fix tx status reporting in encap offload mode") Fixes: 94739d45c388 ("ath11k: switch to using ieee80211_tx_status_ext()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c index a34833de7c67..27c976f52c7a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ ath11k_dp_tx_htt_tx_complete_buf(struct ath11k_base *ab, "dp_tx: failed to find the peer with peer_id %d\n", ts->peer_id); spin_unlock_bh(&ab->base_lock); - dev_kfree_skb_any(msdu); + ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, msdu); return; } spin_unlock_bh(&ab->base_lock); @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ static void ath11k_dp_tx_complete_msdu(struct ath11k *ar, "dp_tx: failed to find the peer with peer_id %d\n", ts->peer_id); spin_unlock_bh(&ab->base_lock); - dev_kfree_skb_any(msdu); + ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, msdu); return; } arsta = (struct ath11k_sta *)peer->sta->drv_priv;

When a function is using functions from mac80211 to free an skb then it should do it consistently and not switch to the generic dev_kfree_skb_any (or similar functions). Otherwise (like in the error handlers), mac80211 will will not be aware of the freed skb and thus not clean up related information in its internal data structures.

Not doing so lead in the past to filled up structure which then prevented new clients to connect.

Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices") Fixes: 6257c702264c ("wifi: ath11k: fix tx status reporting in encap offload mode") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven@narfation.org --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c index 27c976f52c7a..b85a4a03b37a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/dp_tx.c @@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ ath11k_dp_tx_htt_tx_complete_buf(struct ath11k_base *ab, dma_unmap_single(ab->dev, skb_cb->paddr, msdu->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);

if (!skb_cb->vif) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(msdu); + ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, msdu); return; }

@@ -566,12 +566,12 @@ static void ath11k_dp_tx_complete_msdu(struct ath11k *ar, dma_unmap_single(ab->dev, skb_cb->paddr, msdu->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);

if (unlikely(!rcu_access_pointer(ab->pdevs_active[ar->pdev_idx]))) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(msdu); + ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, msdu); return; }

if (unlikely(!skb_cb->vif)) { - dev_kfree_skb_any(msdu); + ieee80211_free_txskb(ar->hw, msdu); return; }