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wifi: iwlwifi: fix double free on tx path.

Message ID 20220928193057.16132-1-greearb@candelatech.com
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Series wifi: iwlwifi: fix double free on tx path. | expand

Commit Message

Ben Greear Sept. 28, 2022, 7:30 p.m. UTC
From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>

We see kernel crashes and lockups and KASAN errors related to ax210
firmware crashes.  One of the KASAN dumps pointed at the tx path,
and it appears there is indeed a way to double-free an skb.

If iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta returns non-zero, then the 'skb' sent into the
method will be freed.  But, in case where we build TSO skb buffer,
the skb may also be freed in error case.  So, return 0 in that particular
error case and do cleanup manually.

BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | tsf hi
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88813cfa4ba0 by task btserver/9650

CPU: 4 PID: 9650 Comm: btserver Tainted: G        W         5.19.8+ #5
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | time gp1
Hardware name: Default string Default string/SKYBAY, BIOS 5.12 02/19/2019
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x6d
 print_report.cold.12+0xf2/0x684
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x1D0915A8 | time gp2
 ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
 kasan_report+0x8b/0x180
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000001 | uCode revision type
 ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
 __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000048 | uCode version major
 tcp_update_skb_after_send+0x5d/0x170
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb61/0x15c0
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0xDAA05125 | uCode version minor
 ? __tcp_select_window+0x490/0x490
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000420 | hw version
 ? trace_kmalloc_node+0x29/0xd0
 ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x12a/0x260
 ? memset+0x1f/0x40
 ? __build_skb_around+0x125/0x150
 ? __alloc_skb+0x1d4/0x220
 ? skb_zerocopy_clone+0x55/0x230
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00489002 | board version
 ? kmalloc_reserve+0x80/0x80
 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x60/0xb0
 tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034E001C | hcmd
 ? __check_object_size+0x180/0x350
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x24020000 | isr0
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x01400000 | isr1
 ? tcp_sendpage+0x50/0x50
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x48F0000A | isr2
 ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400
 ? tcp_sendmsg+0x14/0x40
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00C3080C | isr3
 ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390
 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x114/0x1d0
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00200000 | isr4
 ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034A001C | last cmd Id
 ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe/0x200
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x0000C2F0 | wait_event
 ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x87/0xe0
 ? inet_send_prepare+0x220/0x220
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x000000C4 | l2p_control
 tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
 sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00010034 | l2p_duration
 __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000007 | l2p_mhvalid
 ? __ia32_sys_getpeername+0x40/0x40
iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | l2p_addr_match
 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
 ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400
 ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390
 ? ktime_get+0x64/0x130
 ? ktime_get+0x8d/0x130
 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
 ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
 ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d126e4531
Code: 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8d 05 35 80 0c 00 41 89 ca 8b 00 85 c0 75 1c 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 67 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 83 ec 20 48 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffe21a679d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000ffdc RCX: 00007f1d126e4531
RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 000000000374acf0 RDI: 0000000000000014
RBP: 00007ffe21a67ac0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000010
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 9650:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6d/0x90
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xf3/0x2b0
 __alloc_skb+0x191/0x220
 tcp_stream_alloc_skb+0x3f/0x330
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x67c/0x1520
 tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
 sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
 __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

Freed by task 9650:
 kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
 kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
 kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
 __kasan_slab_free+0x102/0x170
 kmem_cache_free+0xc8/0x3e0
 iwl_mvm_mac_itxq_xmit+0x124/0x270 [iwlmvm]
 ieee80211_queue_skb+0x874/0xd10 [mac80211]
 ieee80211_xmit_fast+0xf80/0x1180 [mac80211]
 __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x287/0x680 [mac80211]
 ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xcd/0x730 [mac80211]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf6/0x420
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x165b/0x1b50
 ip_finish_output2+0x66e/0xfb0
 __ip_finish_output+0x487/0x6d0
 ip_output+0x11c/0x350
 __ip_queue_xmit+0x36b/0x9d0
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb35/0x15c0
 tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0
 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520
 tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
 sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
 __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
 do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813cfa4b40
 which belongs to the cache skbuff_fclone_cache of size 472
The buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of
 472-byte region [ffff88813cfa4b40, ffff88813cfa4d18)

The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea0004f3e900 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88813cfa6c40 pfn:0x13cfa4
head:ffffea0004f3e900 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0x5fff8000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3fff)
raw: 005fff8000010200 ffffea0004656b08 ffffea0008e8cf08 ffff8881081a5240
raw: ffff88813cfa6c40 0000000000170015 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address:
 ffff88813cfa4a80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
 ffff88813cfa4b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff88813cfa4b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
                               ^
 ffff88813cfa4c00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
 ffff88813cfa4c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================

Tested-by: Amol Jawale <amol.jawale@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Greenman, Gregory Oct. 12, 2022, 2:17 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 12:30 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 
> We see kernel crashes and lockups and KASAN errors related to ax210
> firmware crashes.  One of the KASAN dumps pointed at the tx path,
> and it appears there is indeed a way to double-free an skb.
> 
> If iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta returns non-zero, then the 'skb' sent into the
> method will be freed.  But, in case where we build TSO skb buffer,
> the skb may also be freed in error case.  So, return 0 in that particular
> error case and do cleanup manually.
> 
> BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | tsf hi
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff88813cfa4ba0 by task btserver/9650
> 
> CPU: 4 PID: 9650 Comm: btserver Tainted: G        W         5.19.8+ #5
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | time gp1
> Hardware name: Default string Default string/SKYBAY, BIOS 5.12 02/19/2019
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x6d
>  print_report.cold.12+0xf2/0x684
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x1D0915A8 | time gp2
>  ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
>  kasan_report+0x8b/0x180
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000001 | uCode revision type
>  ? __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
>  __list_del_entry_valid+0x12/0x90
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000048 | uCode version major
>  tcp_update_skb_after_send+0x5d/0x170
>  __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb61/0x15c0
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0xDAA05125 | uCode version minor
>  ? __tcp_select_window+0x490/0x490
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000420 | hw version
>  ? trace_kmalloc_node+0x29/0xd0
>  ? __kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x12a/0x260
>  ? memset+0x1f/0x40
>  ? __build_skb_around+0x125/0x150
>  ? __alloc_skb+0x1d4/0x220
>  ? skb_zerocopy_clone+0x55/0x230
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00489002 | board version
>  ? kmalloc_reserve+0x80/0x80
>  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0x60/0xb0
>  tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034E001C | hcmd
>  ? __check_object_size+0x180/0x350
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x24020000 | isr0
>  tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x01400000 | isr1
>  ? tcp_sendpage+0x50/0x50
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x48F0000A | isr2
>  ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400
>  ? tcp_sendmsg+0x14/0x40
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00C3080C | isr3
>  ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390
>  ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x114/0x1d0
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00200000 | isr4
>  ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x034A001C | last cmd Id
>  ? rwlock_bug.part.2+0x50/0x50
>  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe/0x200
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x0000C2F0 | wait_event
>  ? __local_bh_enable_ip+0x87/0xe0
>  ? inet_send_prepare+0x220/0x220
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x000000C4 | l2p_control
>  tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
>  sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00010034 | l2p_duration
>  __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000007 | l2p_mhvalid
>  ? __ia32_sys_getpeername+0x40/0x40
> iwlwifi 0000:06:00.0: 0x00000000 | l2p_addr_match
>  ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
>  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
>  ? lock_release+0xb9/0x400
>  ? lock_downgrade+0x390/0x390
>  ? ktime_get+0x64/0x130
>  ? ktime_get+0x8d/0x130
>  ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
>  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_held_common+0x12/0x50
>  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x5a/0xd0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
>  ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xb0/0xb0
>  __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
>  do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> RIP: 0033:0x7f1d126e4531
> Code: 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 8d 05 35 80 0c 00 41 89 ca 8b 00 85 c0 75 1c 45 31 c9 45 31 c0 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 67 c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 83 ec 20 48
> 89
> RSP: 002b:00007ffe21a679d8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000ffdc RCX: 00007f1d126e4531
> RDX: 0000000000010000 RSI: 000000000374acf0 RDI: 0000000000000014
> RBP: 00007ffe21a67ac0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000010
> R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000
>  </TASK>
> 
> Allocated by task 9650:
>  kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
>  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6d/0x90
>  kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xf3/0x2b0
>  __alloc_skb+0x191/0x220
>  tcp_stream_alloc_skb+0x3f/0x330
>  tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x67c/0x1520
>  tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
>  sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
>  __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
>  __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
>  do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> 
> Freed by task 9650:
>  kasan_save_stack+0x1c/0x40
>  kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30
>  kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30
>  __kasan_slab_free+0x102/0x170
>  kmem_cache_free+0xc8/0x3e0
>  iwl_mvm_mac_itxq_xmit+0x124/0x270 [iwlmvm]
>  ieee80211_queue_skb+0x874/0xd10 [mac80211]
>  ieee80211_xmit_fast+0xf80/0x1180 [mac80211]
>  __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x287/0x680 [mac80211]
>  ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xcd/0x730 [mac80211]
>  dev_hard_start_xmit+0xf6/0x420
>  __dev_queue_xmit+0x165b/0x1b50
>  ip_finish_output2+0x66e/0xfb0
>  __ip_finish_output+0x487/0x6d0
>  ip_output+0x11c/0x350
>  __ip_queue_xmit+0x36b/0x9d0
>  __tcp_transmit_skb+0xb35/0x15c0
>  tcp_write_xmit+0x3f1/0x24d0
>  tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x8a9/0x1520
>  tcp_sendmsg+0x22/0x40
>  sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
>  __sys_sendto+0x19d/0x250
>  __x64_sys_sendto+0x6f/0x80
>  do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88813cfa4b40
>  which belongs to the cache skbuff_fclone_cache of size 472
> The buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of
>  472-byte region [ffff88813cfa4b40, ffff88813cfa4d18)
> 
> The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
> page:ffffea0004f3e900 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff88813cfa6c40 pfn:0x13cfa4
> head:ffffea0004f3e900 order:2 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
> flags: 0x5fff8000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3fff)
> raw: 005fff8000010200 ffffea0004656b08 ffffea0008e8cf08 ffff8881081a5240
> raw: ffff88813cfa6c40 0000000000170015 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
> page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
> 
> Memory state around the buggy address:
>  ffff88813cfa4a80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
>  ffff88813cfa4b00: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> > ffff88813cfa4b80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>                                ^
>  ffff88813cfa4c00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>  ffff88813cfa4c80: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
> ==================================================================
> 
> Tested-by: Amol Jawale <amol.jawale@candelatech.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> index f9e08b339e0c..72bba83b4603 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
> @@ -1206,6 +1206,7 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb,
>         struct sk_buff_head mpdus_skbs;
>         unsigned int payload_len;
>         int ret;
> +       struct sk_buff *orig_skb = skb;
>  
>         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mvmsta))
>                 return -1;
> @@ -1238,8 +1239,17 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb,
>  
>                 ret = iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu(mvm, skb, &info, sta);
>                 if (ret) {

Maybe while on it, add here "if (unlikely(ret)) {"?

> +                       /* Free skbs created as part of TSO logic that have not yet been dequeued */
>                         __skb_queue_purge(&mpdus_skbs);
> -                       return ret;
> +                       /* skb here is not necessarily same as skb that entered this method,
> +                        * so free it explicitly.
> +                        */
> +                       if (skb == orig_skb)
> +                               ieee80211_free_txskb(mvm->hw, skb);
> +                       else
> +                               kfree_skb(skb);
> +                       /* there was error, but we consumed skb one way or another, so return 0 */
> +                       return 0;
>                 }
>         }
>  

Thanks for the fix!
Gregory
Ben Greear Oct. 13, 2022, 4:39 p.m. UTC | #2
On 10/12/22 7:17 AM, Greenman, Gregory wrote:

>>          if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mvmsta))
>>                  return -1;
>> @@ -1238,8 +1239,17 @@ int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb,
>>   
>>                  ret = iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu(mvm, skb, &info, sta);
>>                  if (ret) {
> 
> Maybe while on it, add here "if (unlikely(ret)) {"?

I don't think it is worth respinning the patch for that, but could add a follow-on patch.

Thanks,
Ben

> 
>> +                       /* Free skbs created as part of TSO logic that have not yet been dequeued */
>>                          __skb_queue_purge(&mpdus_skbs);
>> -                       return ret;
>> +                       /* skb here is not necessarily same as skb that entered this method,
>> +                        * so free it explicitly.
>> +                        */
>> +                       if (skb == orig_skb)
>> +                               ieee80211_free_txskb(mvm->hw, skb);
>> +                       else
>> +                               kfree_skb(skb);
>> +                       /* there was error, but we consumed skb one way or another, so return 0 */
>> +                       return 0;
>>                  }
>>          }
>>   
> 
> Thanks for the fix!
> Gregory
>
Ben Greear Nov. 9, 2022, 12:48 a.m. UTC | #3
On 10/12/22 7:17 AM, Greenman, Gregory wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 12:30 -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> We see kernel crashes and lockups and KASAN errors related to ax210
>> firmware crashes.  One of the KASAN dumps pointed at the tx path,
>> and it appears there is indeed a way to double-free an skb.

While rebasing on top of 6.1-rc4, I notice this patch is not in the
tree yet.  I think it is worth adding it to 6.1 since it is a pretty
nasty kernel crash...

Thanks,
Ben
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
index f9e08b339e0c..72bba83b4603 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/tx.c
@@ -1206,6 +1206,7 @@  int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct sk_buff_head mpdus_skbs;
 	unsigned int payload_len;
 	int ret;
+	struct sk_buff *orig_skb = skb;
 
 	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!mvmsta))
 		return -1;
@@ -1238,8 +1239,17 @@  int iwl_mvm_tx_skb_sta(struct iwl_mvm *mvm, struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 		ret = iwl_mvm_tx_mpdu(mvm, skb, &info, sta);
 		if (ret) {
+			/* Free skbs created as part of TSO logic that have not yet been dequeued */
 			__skb_queue_purge(&mpdus_skbs);
-			return ret;
+			/* skb here is not necessarily same as skb that entered this method,
+			 * so free it explicitly.
+			 */
+			if (skb == orig_skb)
+				ieee80211_free_txskb(mvm->hw, skb);
+			else
+				kfree_skb(skb);
+			/* there was error, but we consumed skb one way or another, so return 0 */
+			return 0;
 		}
 	}