I found the associated ath10k mailing list thread https://www.mail-archive.com/ath10k@lists.infradead.org/msg12068.html
In that thread, Wen Gong (author of the changes in git commit 2dc016599cfa9672a147528ca26d70c3654a5423) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2dc016599cfa9672a147528ca26d70c3654a5423 replied that the commit should be reverted.
