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Commit 42624d49 authored by Yogesh Ashok Powar's avatar Yogesh Ashok Powar Committed by John W. Linville
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mac80211: Purge A-MPDU TX queues before station destructions



When a station leaves suddenly while ampdu traffic to that station is still
running, there is a possibility that the ampdu pending queues are not freed due
to a race condition leading to memory leaks. In '__sta_info_destroy' when we
attempt to destroy the ampdu sessions in 'ieee80211_sta_tear_down_BA_sessions',
the driver calls 'ieee80211_stop_tx_ba_cb_irqsafe' to delete the ampdu
structures (tid_tx) and splice the pending queues and this job gets queued in
sdata workqueue. However, the sta entry can get destroyed before the above work
gets scheduled and hence the race.

Purging the queues and freeing the tid_tx to avoid the leak. The better solution
would be to fix the race, but that can be taken up in a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNishant Sarmukadam <nishants@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYogesh Ashok Powar <yogeshp@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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