[PATCH] wifi: ath12k: fix DMA unwind for ext MSDU descriptor retry
Rameshkumar Sundaram
rameshkumar.sundaram at oss.qualcomm.com
Thu Aug 13 10:39:20 PDT 2026
ath12k_wifi7_dp_tx() maps the original MSDU into ti.paddr and
stores the address in skb_cb->paddr. When an extended MSDU descriptor
is used, the function later maps the ext descriptor and overwrites
ti.paddr and ti.data_len with the ext-desc DMA address and length.
If TCL ring allocation then fails, the error path first unmaps the
ext-desc DMA address from skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc. It then falls through
to fail_unmap_dma, which uses ti.paddr/ti.data_len for the original
MSDU unmap. At that point ti.paddr still refers to the ext-desc
mapping, so the ext descriptor is unmapped twice and the original MSDU
mapping is left mapped.
Fix the original MSDU unwind to use skb_cb->paddr and skb->len instead
of ti.paddr/ti.data_len. The ti fields cannot be used after the ext
descriptor is mapped because they are intentionally reused for the
buffer submitted to TCL. Also clear skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc after the
ext-desc unmap so a TCL ring retry cannot observe stale ext-desc DMA
state from the previous attempt.
Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.6-01243-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
Fixes: 37a068fc9dc4 ("wifi: ath12k: Handle error cases during extended skb allocation")
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <rameshkumar.sundaram at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
index 587d58eeccfa..0dcb566fd182 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wifi7/dp_tx.c
@@ -449,15 +449,17 @@ int ath12k_wifi7_dp_tx(struct ath12k_pdev_dp *dp_pdev, struct ath12k_link_vif *a
return 0;
fail_unmap_dma_ext:
- if (skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc)
+ if (skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc) {
dma_unmap_single(dp->dev, skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc,
skb_ext_desc->len,
DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ skb_cb->paddr_ext_desc = 0;
+ }
fail_free_ext_skb:
kfree_skb(skb_ext_desc);
fail_unmap_dma:
- dma_unmap_single(dp->dev, ti.paddr, ti.data_len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
+ dma_unmap_single(dp->dev, skb_cb->paddr, skb->len, DMA_TO_DEVICE);
fail_remove_tx_buf:
ath12k_dp_tx_release_txbuf(dp, tx_desc, pool_id);
---
base-commit: e07447e654476262558bee570f4cf456e2b32565
change-id: 20260813-ext-msdu-fix-0ec6b3e7cc8c
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