[PATCH ath-next 0/2] wifi: ath12k: Improve RX Error Handling and Debug Visibility

Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan vasanthakumar.thiagarajan at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Oct 8 01:11:40 PDT 2025



On 9/30/2025 2:45 PM, Sarika Sharma wrote:
> Fix buffer leak and potential crash in RX error path. Drop MSDU
> buffer-type packets received on the REO exception ring from
> unassociated peers, as they are not parsed but their buffers are not
> freed. Add debug counter reo_excep_msdu_buf_type in
> ath12k_debugfs_dump_device_dp_stats() to track dropped packets
> and aid debugging.
> 
> Sarika Sharma (2):
>    wifi: ath12k: Fix MSDU buffer types handling in RX error path
>    wifi: ath12k: track dropped MSDU buffer type packets in REO exception
>      ring
> 
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h    |  1 +
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/debugfs.c |  5 +-
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/dp_rx.c   | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++--
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/hal_rx.c  | 10 +---
>   4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

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



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