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wifi: mac80211: free ack status frame on TX header build failure

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ieee80211_build_hdr() stores an ACK status frame before it has
finished all validation and header construction. If a later error path
is taken, the transmit skb is freed but the stored ACK status frame
remains in local->ack_status_frames.

This can happen for control port frames when the requested MLO link ID
does not match the link selected for a non-MLO station. Repeated
failures can fill the ACK status IDR and leave pending ACK frames until
hardware teardown.

Remove any stored ACK status frame before returning an error after it
has been inserted into the IDR.

Fixes: a729cff8ad ("mac80211: implement wifi TX status")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.4
Signed-off-by: Zhiling Zou <roxy520tt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/9de0423da840e92084915b8f92e66a421245c4b8.1782462409.git.roxy520tt@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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Zhiling Zou 2026-06-27 00:58:30 +08:00 • committed by Johannes Berg
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