[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: fix potential memory leak in ath12k_wow_arp_ns_offload()

Abdun Nihaal nihaal at cse.iitm.ac.in
Tue Oct 28 10:04:55 PDT 2025


When the call to ath12k_wmi_arp_ns_offload() fails, the temporary memory
allocation for offload is not freed before returning. Fix that by
freeing offload in the error path.

Fixes: 1666108c74c4 ("wifi: ath12k: support ARP and NS offload")
Signed-off-by: Abdun Nihaal <nihaal at cse.iitm.ac.in>
---
Compile tested only. Issue found using static analysis.

 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
index dce9bd0bcaef..e8481626f194 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wow.c
@@ -758,6 +758,7 @@ static int ath12k_wow_arp_ns_offload(struct ath12k *ar, bool enable)
 		if (ret) {
 			ath12k_warn(ar->ab, "failed to set arp ns offload vdev %i: enable %d, ret %d\n",
 				    arvif->vdev_id, enable, ret);
+			kfree(offload);
 			return ret;
 		}
 	}
-- 
2.43.0




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