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Re: [PATCH 2/2] wifi: mac80211: Purge vif txq in ieee80211_do_stop()

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On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 12:04 +0100, Remi Pommarel wrote:
> After ieee80211_do_stop() SKB from vif's txq could still be processed.
> Indeed another concurrent vif schedule_and_wake_txq call could cause
> those packets to be dequeued (see ieee80211_handle_wake_tx_queue())
> without checking the sdata current state.
> 
> Because vif.drv_priv is now cleared in this function, this could lead to
> driver crash.
> 
> For example in ath12k, ahvif is store in vif.drv_priv. Thus if
> ath12k_mac_op_tx() is called after ieee80211_do_stop(), ahvif->ah can be
> NULL, leading the ath12k_warn(ahvif->ah,...) call in this function to
> trigger the NULL deref below.
> 
>   Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address dfffffc000000001
> 

Also here, can you find a Fixes: tag?

johannes





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