[PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath11k: zero init info->status in wmi_process_mgmt_tx_comp()

[Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan]

On 11/4/2025 2:09 PM, Nicolas Escande wrote:
> When reporting tx completion using ieee80211_tx_status_xxx() familly of

nit: s/familly/family

> functions, the status part of the struct ieee80211_tx_info nested in the
> skb is used to report things like transmit rates & retry count to mac80211
> 
> On the TX data path, this is correctly memset to 0 before calling
> ieee80211_tx_status_ext(), but on the tx mgmt path this was not done.
> 
> This leads to mac80211 treating garbage values as valid transmit counters
> (like tx retries for example) and accounting them as real statistics that
> makes their way to userland via station dump.
> 
> The same issue was resolved in ath12k by commit 9903c0986f78 ("wifi:
> ath12k: Add memset and update default rate value in wmi tx completion")
> 
> Tested-on: QCN9074 PCI WLAN.HK.2.9.0.1-01977-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
> 
> Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande <nico.escande at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan at oss.qualcomm.com>