From: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@toke.dk>
To: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath9k: unmap DMA and free skb for stale TX buffers on queue drain
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:10:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jyoscabt.fsf@toke.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260904212534.86403-1-rosenp@gmail.com>
Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com> writes:
> When draining a TX queue (e.g. on device removal or reset), stale
> ath_buf descriptors were returned directly to the free pool via
> ath_tx_return_buffer without unmapping their DMA buffers or freeing
> their associated skbs. This leaks both DMA API resources and socket
> buffer memory.
>
> Unmap the DMA buffer and free the skb before returning the buffer
> to the pool.
>
> Assisted-by: opencode:big-pickle
> Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> index 89d8b3178784..89930eaf1fd3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
> @@ -1884,8 +1884,17 @@ static void ath_drain_txq_list(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_txq *txq,
> bf = list_first_entry(list, struct ath_buf, list);
>
> if (bf->bf_state.stale) {
> - list_del(&bf->list);
> + struct sk_buff *skb = bf->bf_mpdu;
>
> + list_del(&bf->list);
> + if (bf->bf_buf_addr) {
> + dma_unmap_single(sc->dev, bf->bf_buf_addr,
> + skb ? skb->len : 0,
> + DMA_TO_DEVICE);
A zero-length unmap? That seems completely non-sensical. Is there even a
bug here? AFAICT, the only place where a buf is set as stale, the
aggregate subsequently goes through ath_tx_complete_buf(), which does
the unmapping.
Did you test this? Unless you can demonstrate a real bug here, I'm just
going to assume this is all LLM garbage output.
-Toke
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