FAILED: patch "[PATCH] wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 283fc9e44ff5b5ac967439b4951b80bd4299f4e4
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026051218-armrest-radish-0482@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 283fc9e44ff5b5ac967439b4951b80bd4299f4e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 15:15:34 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails

If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must not keep the station since it's related to the link of the vif being removed. Delete an existing station. Any "new_sta" is already being removed, so that doesn't need changes.

This fixes a use-after-free/double-free in debugfs if that's enabled, because a vif going from MLD (and to MLD, but that's not relevant here) recreates its entire debugfs.

index 298ebff6bbf8..0a0f27836d57 100644
@@ -9149,7 +9149,7 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 	struct ieee80211_bss *bss = (void *)cbss->priv;
 	struct sta_info *new_sta = NULL;
 	struct ieee80211_link_data *link;
-	bool have_sta = false;
+	struct sta_info *have_sta = NULL;
 	bool mlo;
 	int err;
 	u16 new_links;

@@ -9168,11 +9168,8 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 		mlo = false;
 	}
 
-	if (assoc) {
-		rcu_read_lock();
+	if (assoc)
 		have_sta = sta_info_get(sdata, ap_mld_addr);
-		rcu_read_unlock();
-	}
 
 	if (mlo && !have_sta &&
 	    WARN_ON(sdata->vif.valid_links || sdata->vif.active_links))

@@ -9336,6 +9333,8 @@ static int ieee80211_prep_connection(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
 out_release_chan:
 	ieee80211_link_release_channel(link);
 out_err:
+	if (mlo && have_sta)
+		WARN_ON(__sta_info_destroy(have_sta));
 	ieee80211_vif_set_links(sdata, 0, 0);
 	return err;
 }