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WARNING in __ieee80211_start_scan (2)
Status:
upstream: reported on 2026/06/14 16:49
Subsystems:
wireless
Labels:
prio:normal
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Reported-by: syzbot+f961b9f94edbc266f1f8@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit:
cd54bf333f56
wifi: mac80211: add HE 6 GHz capability in the scan elems len
Patched on: [ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto ci-qemu-upstream ci-qemu-upstream-386 ci-qemu2-arm32 ci-qemu2-arm64 ci-qemu2-arm64-compat ci-qemu2-arm64-mte ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci-upstream-gce-leak ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce ci-upstream-kasan-gce-386 ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce ci-upstream-rust-kasan-gce ci2-upstream-fs ci2-upstream-kcsan-gce ci2-upstream-usb], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-root]
First crash: 135d, last: 9d08h
Sample crash report:
netlink: 16 bytes leftover after parsing attributes in process `syz.2.5317'.
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!ieee80211_prep_hw_scan(sdata)
WARNING: net/mac80211/scan.c:879 at __ieee80211_start_scan+0x1348/0x1e30 net/mac80211/scan.c:879, CPU#1: syz.2.5317/22737
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 22737 Comm: syz.2.5317 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:__ieee80211_start_scan+0x1348/0x1e30 net/mac80211/scan.c:879
Code: 4f 91 e8 6b 21 73 f6 48 83 fd 09 0f 84 02 08 00 00 83 fd 03 0f 84 00 08 00 00 e8 e3 1a 73 f6 e9 ab f2 ff ff e8 d9 1a 73 f6 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 67 fd ff ff 89 d9 80 e1 07 80 c1 03 38 c1 0f 8c 3a fa
RSP: 0018:ffffc900048ef148 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff8b54f597 RBX: ffff88806831cec0 RCX: ffff888068348000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000fffffff4 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88804eb4f024 R08: ffffffff917a737f R09: 1ffffffff22f4e6f
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff22f4e70 R12: 1ffff1100bf5658d
R13: ffff88805fab2b58 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88805fab0fa0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888123bbf000(0063) knlGS:00000000f5496b40
CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00000000f74a5014 CR3: 0000000071a28000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rdev_scan+0x176/0x3b0 net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:468
nl80211_trigger_scan+0x1cff/0x21e0 net/wireless/nl80211.c:11511
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x233/0x340 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x614/0x7a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
netlink_rcv_skb+0x226/0x4a0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2575
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x7bd/0x940 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1364
netlink_sendmsg+0x813/0xb40 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1919
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x13a/0x180 net/socket.c:800
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:815 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x54e/0x850 net/socket.c:2713
___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2767
__sys_sendmsg+0x177/0x240 net/socket.c:2799
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:79 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x27a/0x6b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:291
do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:316
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
RIP: 0023:0xf747f0ec
Code: 90 85 d2 74 0a 89 ce 81 e6 ff 0f 00 00 89 32 85 c0 74 05 c1 e9 0c 89 08 31 c0 5e 5d c3 90 0f 1f 00 51 52 55 89 e5 0f 34 cd 80 <5d> 5a 59 c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 58 b8
RSP: 002b:00000000f549650c EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000172
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 0000000080000540
RDX: 0000000000028000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
0: 90 nop
1: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx
3: 74 0a je 0xf
5: 89 ce mov %ecx,%esi
7: 81 e6 ff 0f 00 00 and $0xfff,%esi
d: 89 32 mov %esi,(%rdx)
f: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax
11: 74 05 je 0x18
13: c1 e9 0c shr $0xc,%ecx
16: 89 08 mov %ecx,(%rax)
18: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax
1a: 5e pop %rsi
1b: 5d pop %rbp
1c: c3 ret
1d: 90 nop
1e: 0f 1f 00 nopl (%rax)
21: 51 push %rcx
22: 52 push %rdx
23: 55 push %rbp
24: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp
26: 0f 34 sysenter
28: cd 80 int $0x80
* 2a: 5d pop %rbp <-- trapping instruction
2b: 5a pop %rdx
2c: 59 pop %rcx
2d: c3 ret
2e: 90 nop
2f: 90 nop
30: 90 nop
31: 90 nop
32: 90 nop
33: 90 nop
34: 90 nop
35: 90 nop
36: 90 nop
37: 90 nop
38: 90 nop
39: 90 nop
3a: 90 nop
3b: 90 nop
3c: 90 nop
3d: 90 nop
3e: 58 pop %rax
3f: b8 .byte 0xb8
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.