CVE-2026-23444

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure

ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() has three error paths, but only two of them

free the skb. The first error path (ieee80211_tx_prepare() returning

TX_DROP) does not free it, while invoke_tx_handlers() failure and the

fragmentation check both do.

Add kfree_skb() to the first error path so all three are consistent,

and remove the now-redundant frees in callers (ath9k, mt76,

mac80211_hwsim) to avoid double-free.

Document the skb ownership guarantee in the function's kdoc.