[PATCH v2] wifi: ath11k/ath12k: release QMI handles on late init failures

[Jeff Johnson]

On 7/14/2026 11:40 PM, Guangshuo Li wrote:
> ath11k and ath12k initialize their QMI handles before allocating the QMI
> event workqueues and registering the service lookups.
> 
> If either of these later initialization steps fails, the functions
> return without releasing the initialized QMI handles, leaking their
> resources.
> 
> Release the QMI handles on the late failure paths in both drivers.
> 
> ath12k_qmi_deinit_service() uses ab->qmi.ab to determine whether QMI
> service initialization completed successfully. Set it only after all
> initialization steps succeed. Keep the ath11k assignment unchanged
> because ath11k does not use it as an initialization-success guard.
> 
> Fixes: d5c65159f289 ("ath11k: driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices")
> Fixes: 088a099690e4 ("wifi: ath12k: fix error handling in creating hardware group")
> Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244 at gmail.com>
> ---
> v2:
>   - Set ath12k ab->qmi.ab only after QMI service initialization succeeds,
>     as suggested by Baochen Qiang.
>   - Fix the same late initialization QMI handle leak in ath11k, as
>     suggested by Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan.
>   - Drop the Reviewed-by tag due to the code changes.
> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/qmi.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/qmi.c | 13 ++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Please split into two patches, one for ath11k and one for ath12k