[PATCH ath-next 2/2] wifi: ath12k: fix MLO peer delete race

[Rameshkumar Sundaram]

On 6/17/2026 2:58 PM, Baochen Qiang wrote:
> ath12k_peer_mlo_link_peers_delete() sends WMI peer_delete for every
> link before waiting for any peer_unmap / peer_delete_resp event. The
> shared per-radio completion ar->peer_delete_done could not
> disambiguate which peer a response was for: every call to
> ath12k_peer_delete_send() did
> reinit_completion(&ar->peer_delete_done), so when an event for the
> first link arrived between two sends it raised the count to 1 and
> the second send promptly cleared it; the wait for the second link
> then timed out with
> 
>      Timeout in receiving peer delete response
> 
> Replace the shared completion with a per-radio waiter list, with
> each pending ath12k_peer_delete() caller queueing an
> ath12k_peer_delete_wait carrying its (vdev_id, addr) and a private
> struct completion. ath12k_peer_delete_resp_event() matches the
> response against the list under ar->data_lock and signals the
> matching waiter.
> 
> Also correct the endian conversion in ath12k_peer_delete_resp_event()
> logging, and add the missing \n in some logging.
> 
> Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3
> 
> Fixes: 8e6f8bc28603 ("wifi: ath12k: Add MLO station state change handling")
> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c |   2 +-
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.h |   5 +-
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/mac.c  |   2 +-
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.c | 130 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.h |  19 ++++-
>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c  |  16 ++--
>   6 files changed, 136 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c
> index 742d4fd1b598..f71650039292 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c

{ ... }

> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.h b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.h
> index 49d89796bc46..3dc720a3dc12 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.h
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/peer.h
> @@ -9,13 +9,28 @@
>   
>   #include "dp_peer.h"
>   
> +struct ath12k_peer_delete_wait {
> +	struct list_head list;
> +	u32 vdev_id;
> +	u8 addr[ETH_ALEN];
> +	struct completion done;
> +};
> +
> +void ath12k_peer_delete_wait_register(struct ath12k *ar,
> +				      struct ath12k_peer_delete_wait *wait,
> +				      u32 vdev_id, const u8 *addr);
> +void ath12k_peer_delete_wait_unregister(struct ath12k *ar,
> +					struct ath12k_peer_delete_wait *wait);


The struct and functions appear to be used only within peer.c and are 
not referenced elsewhere. Could the function be made static in peer.c ?

> +void ath12k_peer_delete_resp_signal(struct ath12k *ar, u32 vdev_id, const u8 *addr);
> +void ath12k_peer_delete_wait_flush(struct ath12k *ar);


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Ramesh