[PATCH ath-next v2] wifi: ath12k: Fix NAPI resource leaks in AHB external IRQ paths

Aaradhana Sahu aaradhana.sahu at oss.qualcomm.com
Wed Sep 30 21:54:23 PDT 2026


Currently, NAPI instances and their associated netdevs allocated for AHB
external IRQ groups are not released when external IRQ configuration
fails. They are also not freed when arch_init() fails after
ath12k_ahb_config_irq() succeeds during probe, or when the driver is
unloaded.

Fix this by adding a common cleanup helper to release the NAPI instances
and associated netdevs. Call it from the external IRQ configuration error
path, probe error path, and driver cleanup path.

Tested-on: IPQ5332 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.WBE.1.6-01275-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Fixes: 6cee30f0da75 ("wifi: ath12k: add AHB driver support for IPQ5332")
Fixes: 614c23e24ee8 ("wifi: ath12k: Support arch-specific DP device allocation")
Signed-off-by: Aaradhana Sahu <aaradhana.sahu at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
v2:
  -Remove unnecessary irq_grp->napi_ndev NULL check.
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c
index 85360365aa4b..9b77632bd1bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/ahb.c
@@ -191,6 +191,26 @@ static void __ath12k_ahb_ext_irq_disable(struct ath12k_base *ab)
 	}
 }
 
+static void ath12k_ahb_free_napi_for_group(struct ath12k_ext_irq_grp *irq_grp)
+{
+	netif_napi_del(&irq_grp->napi);
+	free_netdev(irq_grp->napi_ndev);
+	irq_grp->napi_ndev = NULL;
+}
+
+static void ath12k_ahb_free_napi(struct ath12k_base *ab, int num_ext_irq_grp)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < num_ext_irq_grp; i++)
+		ath12k_ahb_free_napi_for_group(&ab->ext_irq_grp[i]);
+}
+
+static void ath12k_ahb_free_ext_napi(struct ath12k_base *ab)
+{
+	ath12k_ahb_free_napi(ab, ATH12K_EXT_IRQ_GRP_NUM_MAX);
+}
+
 static void ath12k_ahb_ext_grp_enable(struct ath12k_ext_irq_grp *irq_grp)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -622,8 +642,10 @@ static int ath12k_ahb_config_ext_irq(struct ath12k_base *ab)
 		irq_grp->grp_id = i;
 
 		irq_grp->napi_ndev = alloc_netdev_dummy(0);
-		if (!irq_grp->napi_ndev)
-			return -ENOMEM;
+		if (!irq_grp->napi_ndev) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			goto free_napi_ndev;
+		}
 
 		netif_napi_add(irq_grp->napi_ndev, &irq_grp->napi,
 			       ath12k_ahb_ext_grp_napi_poll);
@@ -675,12 +697,19 @@ static int ath12k_ahb_config_ext_irq(struct ath12k_base *ab)
 					       ath12k_ahb_ext_interrupt_handler,
 					       IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING,
 					       irq_name[irq_idx], irq_grp);
-			if (ret)
+			if (ret) {
 				ath12k_warn(ab, "failed request_irq for %d\n", irq);
+				ath12k_ahb_free_napi_for_group(irq_grp);
+				goto free_napi_ndev;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;
+
+free_napi_ndev:
+	ath12k_ahb_free_napi(ab, i);
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int ath12k_ahb_config_irq(struct ath12k_base *ab)
@@ -1353,7 +1382,7 @@ static int ath12k_ahb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	ret = ab_ahb->device_family_ops->arch_init(ab);
 	if (ret) {
 		ath12k_err(ab, "AHB arch_init failed %d\n", ret);
-		goto err_rproc_deconfigure;
+		goto err_free_irq;
 	}
 
 	ret = ath12k_core_init(ab);
@@ -1367,6 +1396,9 @@ static int ath12k_ahb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 err_deinit_arch:
 	ab_ahb->device_family_ops->arch_deinit(ab);
 
+err_free_irq:
+	ath12k_ahb_free_ext_napi(ab);
+
 err_rproc_deconfigure:
 	mutex_lock(&ath12k_rproc_info_lock);
 	ath12k_ahb_deconfigure_rproc(ab);
@@ -1409,6 +1441,7 @@ static void ath12k_ahb_free_resources(struct ath12k_base *ab)
 	struct platform_device *pdev = ab->pdev;
 	struct ath12k_ahb *ab_ahb = ath12k_ab_to_ahb(ab);
 
+	ath12k_ahb_free_ext_napi(ab);
 	ath12k_hal_srng_deinit(ab);
 	ath12k_ce_free_pipes(ab);
 	ath12k_ahb_resource_deinit(ab);

base-commit: b64812cb6cec118f6c59a4ec2bd4848db17f6bb2
-- 
2.34.1




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