Felix Fietkau d5ad6ab61c wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure ...

ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() has three error paths, but only two of them
free the skb. The first error path (ieee80211_tx_prepare() returning
TX_DROP) does not free it, while invoke_tx_handlers() failure and the
fragmentation check both do.

Add kfree_skb() to the first error path so all three are consistent,
and remove the now-redundant frees in callers (ath9k, mt76,
mac80211_hwsim) to avoid double-free.

Document the skb ownership guarantee in the function's kdoc.

Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260314065455.2462900-1-nbd@nbd.name
Fixes: 06be6b149f ("mac80211: add ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() helper function")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

2026-03-18 09:09:58 +01:00

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