[PATCH] wifi: mac80211_hwsim: avoid calling nlmsg_free() in IRQ or IRQ disabled

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From: EN-WEI WU <hidden>
Date: 2023-08-15 09:55:52
Subsystem: mac80211, networking drivers (wireless), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

Landed in mainline as d40de0ad3d1b on 2023-08-22.

The nlmsg_free() ends up calling kfree_skb(), and kfree_skb() is not allowed to be called
from hardware interrupt context or with hardware interrupts being disabled. Replace the
mistaken usage of nlmsg_free() by dev_kfree_skb_irq(), which is safe in both cases.

Signed-off-by: EN-WEI WU <redacted>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c
index f446fd0e8cd0..678021cf4e57 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c
@@ -6314,7 +6314,7 @@ static void hwsim_virtio_tx_done(struct virtqueue *vq)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&hwsim_virtio_lock, flags);
 	while ((skb = virtqueue_get_buf(vq, &len)))
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&hwsim_virtio_lock, flags);
 }
 
@@ -6383,14 +6383,14 @@ static void hwsim_virtio_rx_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&hwsim_virtio_lock, flags);
 	if (!hwsim_virtio_enabled) {
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 		goto out_unlock;
 	}
 	vq = hwsim_vqs[HWSIM_VQ_RX];
 	sg_init_one(sg, skb->head, skb_end_offset(skb));
 	err = virtqueue_add_inbuf(vq, sg, 1, skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (WARN(err, "virtqueue_add_inbuf returned %d\n", err))
-		nlmsg_free(skb);
+		dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
 	else
 		virtqueue_kick(vq);
 	schedule_work(&hwsim_virtio_rx);
-- 
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