If spectral is unregistered after mac80211, the relayfs file has already been removed recursively by mac/cfg80211, and spectral tries to remove the file once more, thus leading to double free problems. Better clean up spectral before to avoid that problem.
Reported-by: Kalle Valo <kv...@qca.qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <s...@simonwunderlich.de> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c index d3474b4..ba2e87a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c @@ -1043,6 +1043,12 @@ void ath10k_core_unregister(struct ath10k *ar) if (!test_bit(ATH10K_FLAG_CORE_REGISTERED, &ar->dev_flags)) return; + /* Stop spectral before unregistering from mac80211 to remove the + * relayfs debugfs file cleanly. Otherwise the parent debugfs tree + * would be already be free'd recursively, leading to a double free. + */ + ath10k_spectral_destroy(ar); + /* We must unregister from mac80211 before we stop HTC and HIF. * Otherwise we will fail to submit commands to FW and mac80211 will be * unhappy about callback failures. */ @@ -1050,8 +1056,6 @@ void ath10k_core_unregister(struct ath10k *ar) ath10k_core_free_firmware_files(ar); - ath10k_spectral_destroy(ar); - ath10k_debug_destroy(ar); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(ath10k_core_unregister); -- 2.1.0.rc1 _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list ath10k@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k