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WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2024/07/09 00:36
Subsystems: wireless
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Reported-by: syzbot+1a797e1c81be78a2ace7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 676d, last: 3d02h
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ID Workflow Result Correct Bug Created Started Finished Revision Error
60fab665-6dbb-4f23-b561-b5279f472f53 patching-compressed 💥 WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update (2) 2026/05/11 21:04 2026/05/11 22:29 2026/05/12 00:43 d168f2605715ec7b7ab6840d636f69c758e424d9 agent reached max iterations limit (250)
Cause bisection: the issue happens on the oldest tested release (bisect log)
Crash: WARNING in cfg80211_bss_update (log)
Repro: C syz .config
  
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[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update (2) 0 (2) 2024/07/17 08:55
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update wireless -1 1 901d 897d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/03/02 19:52
Last patch testing requests (10)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2026/05/08 11:46 1h05m retest repro upstream report log
2026/04/18 09:36 30m retest repro upstream report log
2026/04/18 09:30 24m retest repro upstream report log
2026/04/04 06:57 15m retest repro upstream report log
2026/03/21 03:38 25m retest repro upstream report log
2026/03/21 03:38 1h29m retest repro git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci error
2026/03/06 17:28 16m retest repro net report log
2026/02/20 16:32 17m retest repro net-next report log
2026/02/06 16:18 22m retest repro upstream error
2026/02/06 16:06 17m retest repro upstream report log
Fix bisection attempts (1)
Created Duration User Patch Repo Result
2025/02/10 13:36 2h55m bisect fix upstream OK (0) job log log

Sample crash report:
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!list_empty(&bss->hidden_list)
WARNING: net/wireless/scan.c:1787 at cfg80211_combine_bsses net/wireless/scan.c:1787 [inline], CPU#1: ksoftirqd/1/30
WARNING: net/wireless/scan.c:1787 at __cfg80211_bss_update+0x1a7f/0x2110 net/wireless/scan.c:2034, CPU#1: ksoftirqd/1/30
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 30 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)} 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:cfg80211_combine_bsses net/wireless/scan.c:1787 [inline]
RIP: 0010:__cfg80211_bss_update+0x1a7f/0x2110 net/wireless/scan.c:2034
Code: f7 4d 89 37 e9 f1 fb ff ff e8 cd 37 4d f7 90 0f 0b 90 48 bd 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df e9 d9 fb ff ff 4c 89 ac 24 90 00 00 00 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8b 3c 24 e8 d5 33 34 fa 84 c0 0f 84 18 01 00 00 e8 98
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000a4ef50 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffff88803d9b4c10 RBX: ffff88803d9b6c00 RCX: ffff88803d9b5010
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 1ffff11007b36a02 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000100
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88803d9b5000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88803d9b6c68 R15: ffff88803d9b6c10
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8881261fb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fb34ef2da40 CR3: 0000000042af4000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 cfg80211_inform_single_bss_data+0xbd8/0x1b80 net/wireless/scan.c:2368
 cfg80211_inform_bss_data+0x266/0x3c40 net/wireless/scan.c:3226
 cfg80211_inform_bss_frame_data+0x3c7/0x730 net/wireless/scan.c:3317
 ieee80211_bss_info_update+0x794/0xa40 net/mac80211/scan.c:230
 ieee80211_scan_rx+0x552/0xa40 net/mac80211/scan.c:364
 __ieee80211_rx_handle_packet net/mac80211/rx.c:5353 [inline]
 ieee80211_rx_list+0x2a02/0x3760 net/mac80211/rx.c:5636
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x1b1/0x3e0 net/mac80211/rx.c:5659
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:5395 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0xe8/0x1e0 net/mac80211/main.c:452
 tasklet_action_common+0x2bf/0x540 kernel/softirq.c:938
 handle_softirqs+0x1de/0x6d0 kernel/softirq.c:622
 run_ksoftirqd+0x52/0x180 kernel/softirq.c:1076
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x541/0xa50 kernel/smpboot.c:160
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Crashes (19):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/04/24 06:56 upstream 45dcf5e28813 9cfb3ca7 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/12/26 08:03 upstream ccd1cdca5cd4 d6526ea3 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/12/24 23:36 upstream 9b2ffa6148b1 444551c4 .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/03/22 22:33 upstream 88d324e69ea9 c6512ef7 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/12/16 11:06 net 922b4b955a03 7cbfbb3a .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/17 08:54 net-next 58f9416d413a 215bec2d .config strace log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-net-next-test-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/02/28 21:22 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 017f704fbfb1 1e7a43e1 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/10/30 08:16 upstream e53642b87a4f fd2207e7 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-smack-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/12/12 09:56 upstream 231825b2e1ff ff949d25 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/12/04 10:17 upstream ceb8bf2ceaa7 b50eb251 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-badwrites-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/08/30 18:58 upstream 20371ba12063 f885a8ff .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/14 21:00 upstream 4d145e3f830b eaeb5c15 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/06 01:54 upstream d270dd21bee0 2a40360c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/27 00:22 upstream 2f8c4f506285 46eb10b7 .config console log report info [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-upstream-386 WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/05/16 09:33 net ef935650e044 cfde8269 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-this-kasan-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/22 17:14 net-next 58f9416d413a df655b64 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-net-next-test-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2024/07/17 07:37 net-next 58f9416d413a 215bec2d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-upstream-net-next-test-gce WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2025/06/01 20:50 linux-next 3a83b350b5be 3d2f584d .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-linux-next-kasan-gce-root WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
2026/05/10 12:13 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux.git for-kernelci 5cbb61bf4168 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-gce-arm64 WARNING in __cfg80211_bss_update
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.