[PATCH] wifi: ath11k: fix warning when unbinding

[Baochen Qiang]

On 4/20/2026 7:01 PM, Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez wrote:
> If there is an error during some initialization related to firmware,
> the buffers dp->tx_ring[i].tx_status are released.
> However this is released again when the device is unbinded (ath11k_pci),
> and we get:
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6231 at mm/slub.c:4368 free_large_kmalloc+0x57/0x90
> Call Trace:
> free_large_kmalloc
> ath11k_dp_free
> ath11k_core_deinit
> ath11k_pci_remove
> ...
> 
> The issue is always reproducible from a VM because the MSI addressing
> initialization is failing.
> 
> In order to fix the issue, just set the buffers to NULL after releasing in
> order to avoid the double free.
> 
> Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jose Ignacio Tornos Martinez <jtornosm at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com>