From: Rajat Soni <quic_rajson@quicinc.com>

Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps
is not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following
trace is observed in kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024):
 comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942577
 hex dump (first 32 bytes):
   00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10  ............{...
   01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00  .............8..
 backtrace (crc 44e1c357):
   __kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410
   ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k]
   ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
   ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k]
   ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
   ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k]
   ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k]
   ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k]
   ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]
   ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k]
   process_one_work+0x219/0x680
   bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0
   tasklet_action+0x13/0x30
   handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460
   __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110
   irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30

Free svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps in the error case to fix this memory leak.

Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.4.1-00199-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1

Fixes: d889913205cf ("wifi: ath12k: driver for Qualcomm Wi-Fi 7 devices")
Signed-off-by: Rajat Soni <quic_rajson@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Raj Kumar Bhagat <quic_rajkbhag@quicinc.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c
index ea303dca38b51f98399079cd3ac06a48fd9cc025..460837f61894b05b1356d3dfdecfbf7b06f8a3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/wmi.c
@@ -4733,6 +4733,7 @@ static int ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(struct ath12k_base *ab,
 	return 0;
 
 err:
+	kfree(svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps);
 	ath12k_wmi_free_dbring_caps(ab);
 	return ret;
 }

---
base-commit: 21346cd925c2567d5f56cdb1421c94815ac10221
change-id: 20250430-wmi-mem-leak-639fa7becfbc

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:25:38 +0530, Raj Kumar Bhagat wrote:
> Currently, in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event(), svc_rdy_ext.mac_phy_caps
> is not freed in the failure case, causing a memory leak. The following
> trace is observed in kmemleak:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff8b3eb5789c00 (size 1024):
>  comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4294942577
>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>    00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 00 00 10  ............{...
>    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 1f 38 00 00  .............8..
>  backtrace (crc 44e1c357):
>    __kmalloc_noprof+0x30b/0x410
>    ath12k_wmi_mac_phy_caps_parse+0x84/0x100 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_wmi_svc_rdy_ext_parse+0x308/0x4c0 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_wmi_tlv_iter+0x5e/0x140 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_service_ready_ext_event.isra.0+0x44/0xd0 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_wmi_op_rx+0x2eb/0xd70 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_htc_rx_completion_handler+0x1f4/0x330 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_ce_recv_process_cb+0x218/0x300 [ath12k]
>    ath12k_pci_ce_workqueue+0x1b/0x30 [ath12k]
>    process_one_work+0x219/0x680
>    bh_worker+0x198/0x1f0
>    tasklet_action+0x13/0x30
>    handle_softirqs+0xca/0x460
>    __irq_exit_rcu+0xbe/0x110
>    irq_exit_rcu+0x9/0x30
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_service_ready_ext_event
      commit: 89142d34d5602c7447827beb181fa06eb08b9d5c

Best regards,
-- 
Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>