[PATCH ath-current 2/3] wifi: ath11k: fix NULL dereference in ahb remove when QMI init incomplete

Miaoqing Pan miaoqing.pan at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Jul 29 18:05:04 PDT 2026


On WCN6750, if QMI messages never arrive (for example when qrtr_smd
is not ready), WLAN initialization stops before the device is fully
registered. In this case ATH11K_FLAG_QMI_FAIL is not set because no
QMI event handler is executed.

When the driver is removed, ath11k_ahb_remove() still calls
ath11k_core_deinit(), which eventually triggers
ath11k_ce_cleanup_pipes() on uninitialized CE pipes and results in a
NULL pointer dereference in ath11k_hal_srng_access_begin():

  ath11k_hal_srng_access_begin+0x14/0x68 [ath11k]
  ath11k_ce_cleanup_pipes+0x184/0x190 [ath11k]
  ath11k_pcic_stop+0x24/0x38 [ath11k]
  ath11k_core_deinit+0xfc/0x1c0 [ath11k]
  ath11k_ahb_remove+0x38/0xa0 [ath11k_ahb]

Fix this by invoking ath11k_ahb_remove_prepare() before the state
check and skipping ath11k_core_deinit() when either QMI initialization
failed or the device was never registered. If ATH11K_FLAG_REGISTERED
is not set, core initialization did not complete and CE pipes may
remain uninitialized, making ath11k_core_deinit() unsafe.

Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.2.0.c2-00204-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1

Fixes: 00402f49d26f ("ath11k: Add support for WCN6750 device")
Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <miaoqing.pan at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c
index fb5640882b98..7f5f5c8d7c56 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ahb.c
@@ -1265,14 +1265,16 @@ static void ath11k_ahb_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct ath11k_base *ab = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
-	if (test_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_QMI_FAIL, &ab->dev_flags)) {
+	ath11k_ahb_remove_prepare(ab);
+
+	if (test_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_QMI_FAIL, &ab->dev_flags) ||
+	    !test_bit(ATH11K_FLAG_REGISTERED, &ab->dev_flags)) {
 		ath11k_ahb_power_down(ab, false);
 		ath11k_debugfs_soc_destroy(ab);
 		ath11k_qmi_deinit_service(ab);
 		goto qmi_fail;
 	}
 
-	ath11k_ahb_remove_prepare(ab);
 	ath11k_core_deinit(ab);
 
 qmi_fail:
-- 
2.34.1




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