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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:6257c70226("wifi: ath11k: fix tx status reporting in encap offload mode") Fixes:94739d45c3("ath11k: switch to using ieee80211_tx_status_ext()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230802-ath11k-ack_status_leak-v2-1-c0af729d6229@narfation.org
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.