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wifi: ath12k: fix error handling in creating hardware group
authorBaochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:08:43 +0000 (10:08 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:02:45 +0000 (14:02 +0100)
commit4f93750fa58861abee4318115ef0023c8d3ba0c0
tree08c7288270d193bcbdfa8f4ceae6bf4fcd204275
parent36faecac7a2c238d46008f2c8f088d0eba674252
wifi: ath12k: fix error handling in creating hardware group

[ Upstream commit 088a099690e4c0d291db505013317ab5dd58b4d5 ]

In ath12k_core_init() when ath12k_core_hw_group_create() fails,
ath12k_core_hw_group_destroy() is called where for each device below
path would get executed

ath12k_core_soc_destroy()
ath12k_qmi_deinit_service()
qmi_handle_release()

This results in kernel crash in case one of the device fails at
qmi_handle_init() when creating hardware group:

ath12k_pci 0000:10:00.0: failed to initialize qmi handle
ath12k_pci 0000:10:00.0: failed to initialize qmi :-517
ath12k_pci 0000:10:00.0: failed to create soc core: -517
ath12k_pci 0000:10:00.0: unable to create hw group
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffb7
RIP: 0010:qmi_handle_release
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ath12k_qmi_deinit_service
 ath12k_core_hw_group_destroy
 ath12k_core_init
 ath12k_pci_probe

The detailed reason is, when qmi_handle_init() fails for a device
ab->qmi.handle is not correctly initialized. Then
ath12k_core_hw_group_create() returns failure, since error handing
is done for all device, eventually qmi_handle_release() is called for the
issue device and finally kernel crashes due to the uninitialized
ab->qmi.handle.

Fix this by moving error handling to ath12k_core_hw_group_create(), this
way the issue device can be skipped.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c5-00284.1-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ-3

Fixes: 6f245ea0ec6c ("wifi: ath12k: introduce device group abstraction")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/ath12k/fabc97122016d1a66a53ddedd965d134@posteo.net
Reported-by: a-development <a-development@posteo.de>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220518
Tested-by: a-development <a-development@posteo.de>
Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanthakumar.thiagarajan@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251030-fix-hw-group-create-err-handling-v1-1-0659e4d15fb9@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/core.c