[PATCH ath-current] wifi: ath10k: fix station lookup failure during disconnect

Paul Menzel pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de
Fri Mar 27 01:43:42 PDT 2026


Dear Baochen,


Am 27.03.26 um 03:54 schrieb Baochen Qiang:

> On 3/27/2026 7:31 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:

[…]

>> Am 25.03.26 um 04:05 schrieb Baochen Qiang:
>>> Recent commit [1] moved station statistics collection to an earlier stage
>>> of the disconnect flow. With this change in place, ath10k fails to resolve
>>> the station entry when handling a peer stats event triggered during
>>> disconnect, resulting in log messages such as:
>>>
>>> wlp58s0: deauthenticating from 74:1a:e0:e7:b4:c8 by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
>>> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: not found station for peer stats
>>> ath10k_pci 0000:3a:00.0: failed to parse stats info tlv: -22
>>>
>>> The failure occurs because ath10k relies on ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr()
>>> for station lookup. That function uses local->sta_hash, but by the time
>>> the peer stats request is triggered during disconnect, mac80211 has
>>> already removed the station from that hash table, leading to lookup
>>> failure.
>>>
>>> Before commit [1], this issue was not visible because the transition from
>>> IEEE80211_STA_NONE to IEEE80211_STA_NOTEXIST prevented ath10k from sending
>>> a peer stats request at all: ath10k_mac_sta_get_peer_stats_info() would
>>> fail early to find the peer and skip requesting statistics.
>>>
>>> Fix this by switching the lookup path to ath10k_peer_find(), which queries
>>> ath10k's internal peer table. At the point where the firmware emits the
>>> peer stats event, the peer entry is still present in the driver's list,
>>> ensuring lookup succeeds.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, how can the statistics be printed?
> 
> not quite understand your question, can you be more detailed?

The commit message starts with:

“… moved station statistics collection to an earlier stage …”

I was wondering how to print/dump these statistics.


Kind regards,

Paul


>>> Tested-on: QCA6174 hw3.2 PCI WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00309-QCARMSWPZ-1
>>>
>>> Fixes: a203dbeeca15 ("wifi: mac80211: collect station statistics earlier when disconnect") # [1]
>>> Reported-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
>>> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/57671b89-ec9f-4e6c-992c-45eb8e75929c@molgen.mpg.de
>>> Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang at oss.qualcomm.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
>>>    1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/
>>> ath10k/wmi-tlv.c
>>> index ec8e91707f84..01f2d1fa9d7d 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi-tlv.c
>>> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
>>>     * Copyright (c) 2005-2011 Atheros Communications Inc.
>>>     * Copyright (c) 2011-2017 Qualcomm Atheros, Inc.
>>>     * Copyright (c) 2018-2019, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
>>> - * Copyright (c) 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. All rights reserved.
>>> + * Copyright (c) Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
>>>     */
>>>    #include "core.h"
>>>    #include "debug.h"
>>> @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
>>>    #include "wmi-tlv.h"
>>>    #include "p2p.h"
>>>    #include "testmode.h"
>>> +#include "txrx.h"
>>>    #include <linux/bitfield.h>
>>>      /***************/
>>> @@ -224,8 +225,9 @@ static int ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info(struct ath10k *ar, u16 tag, u16
>>>                            const void *ptr, void *data)
>>>    {
>>>        const struct wmi_tlv_peer_stats_info *stat = ptr;
>>> -    struct ieee80211_sta *sta;
>>> +    u32 vdev_id = *(u32 *)data;
>>>        struct ath10k_sta *arsta;
>>> +    struct ath10k_peer *peer;
>>>          if (tag != WMI_TLV_TAG_STRUCT_PEER_STATS_INFO)
>>>            return -EPROTO;
>>> @@ -241,20 +243,20 @@ static int ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info(struct ath10k *ar, u16 tag, u16
>>>               __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_tx_rate_code),
>>>               __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_tx_bitrate_kbps));
>>> -    rcu_read_lock();
>>> -    sta = ieee80211_find_sta_by_ifaddr(ar->hw, stat->peer_macaddr.addr, NULL);
>>> -    if (!sta) {
>>> -        rcu_read_unlock();
>>> -        ath10k_warn(ar, "not found station for peer stats\n");
>>> +    guard(spinlock_bh)(&ar->data_lock);
>>> +
>>> +    peer = ath10k_peer_find(ar, vdev_id, stat->peer_macaddr.addr);
>>> +    if (!peer || !peer->sta) {
>>> +        ath10k_warn(ar, "not found %s with vdev id %u mac addr %pM for peer stats\n",
>>> +                peer ? "sta" : "peer", vdev_id, stat->peer_macaddr.addr);
>>>            return -EINVAL;
>>>        }
>>> -    arsta = (struct ath10k_sta *)sta->drv_priv;
>>> +    arsta = (struct ath10k_sta *)peer->sta->drv_priv;
>>>        arsta->rx_rate_code = __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_rx_rate_code);
>>>        arsta->rx_bitrate_kbps = __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_rx_bitrate_kbps);
>>>        arsta->tx_rate_code = __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_tx_rate_code);
>>>        arsta->tx_bitrate_kbps = __le32_to_cpu(stat->last_tx_bitrate_kbps);
>>> -      rcu_read_unlock();
>>>          return 0;
>>>    }
>>> @@ -266,6 +268,7 @@ static int ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_peer_stats_info(struct ath10k *ar,
>>>        const struct wmi_tlv_peer_stats_info_ev *ev;
>>>        const void *data;
>>>        u32 num_peer_stats;
>>> +      u32 vdev_id;
>>>        int ret;
>>>          tb = ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_alloc(ar, skb->data, skb->len, GFP_ATOMIC);
>>> @@ -284,15 +287,16 @@ static int ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_pull_peer_stats_info(struct ath10k *ar,
>>>        }
>>>          num_peer_stats = __le32_to_cpu(ev->num_peers);
>>> +        vdev_id = __le32_to_cpu(ev->vdev_id);
>>>          ath10k_dbg(ar, ATH10K_DBG_WMI,
>>>               "wmi tlv peer stats info update peer vdev id %d peers %i more data %d\n",
>>> -           __le32_to_cpu(ev->vdev_id),
>>> +           vdev_id,
>>>               num_peer_stats,
>>>               __le32_to_cpu(ev->more_data));
>>>          ret = ath10k_wmi_tlv_iter(ar, data, ath10k_wmi_tlv_len(data),
>>> -                  ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info, NULL);
>>> +                  ath10k_wmi_tlv_parse_peer_stats_info, &vdev_id);
>>>        if (ret)
>>>            ath10k_warn(ar, "failed to parse stats info tlv: %d\n", ret);
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
>> Tested-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel at molgen.mpg.de>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Paul



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