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[ath-next] wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats

Message ID 20250507-fw-stats-mem-leak-v1-1-8d4d1d8ec0e8@quicinc.com
State New
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Series [ath-next] wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in WMI firmware stats | expand

Commit Message

Raj Kumar Bhagat May 7, 2025, 5:11 p.m. UTC 
From: P Praneesh <praneesh.p@oss.qualcomm.com>

Memory allocated for firmware pdev, vdev and beacon statistics
are not released during rmmod. Below kmemleak trace is seen for this
memory leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff8e76aebdfa00 (size 256):
  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4299272453
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 19 71 c3 76 8e ff ff 28 19 71 c3 76 8e ff ff  (.q.v...(.q.v...
    9f ff ff ff f4 d4 03 00 aa 88 09 00 bd 40 23 00  .............@#.
  backtrace (crc dfe1b440):
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2b0/0x370
    ath12k_wmi_tlv_fw_stats_data_parse.isra.0+0x44e/0x730 [ath12k]
    ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
    ath12k_update_stats_event+0x85/0x300 [ath12k]
    ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x624/0xd70 [ath12k]
    ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k]
    ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]
    ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k]
    process_one_work+0x219/0x680
    bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0
    tasklet_action+0x13/0x30
    handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460
    __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110
    irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30
    common_interrupt+0xa7/0xc0
    asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40

Fix this by calling ath12k_fw_stats_reset() before hardware unregister.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Fixes: b8a0d83fe4c7 ("wifi: ath12k: move firmware stats out of debugfs")
Signed-off-by: P Praneesh <praneesh.p@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Raj Kumar Bhagat <quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com>
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 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)


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base-commit: 21346cd925c2567d5f56cdb1421c94815ac10221
change-id: 20250507-fw-stats-mem-leak-c87b6384055c
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
index 4dae941c9615cf19e6cc2ed1bd72a6bf1cb812ca..5a14e4241e25d40173a7315f4407826ec412fe59 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c
@@ -11374,6 +11374,7 @@  static void ath12k_mac_hw_unregister(struct ath12k_hw *ah)
 	for_each_ar(ah, ar, i) {
 		cancel_work_sync(&ar->regd_update_work);
 		ath12k_debugfs_unregister(ar);
+		ath12k_fw_stats_reset(ar);
 	}
 
 	ieee80211_unregister_hw(hw);