WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/10/04 18:20
Reported-by: syzbot+72ba7f38dd4a61d47ea1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d19h, last: 5d19h
▶ ▼ Similar bugs (3)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx (2) prio:normal wireless -1 syz, C error 193 1h46m 152d 26/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2026/05/10 21:02
linux-6.1 WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx -1 1 133d 133d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/09/06 17:05
upstream WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx wireless -1 44 560d 661d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/07 07:17

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 22425 at drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:240 hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:240 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 22425 at drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:240 mac80211_hwsim_tx+0x1bdd/0x26e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:2002
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 22425 Comm: syz.4.5036 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/16/2026
RIP: 0010:hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:240 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mac80211_hwsim_tx+0x1bdd/0x26e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:2002
Code: 85 9a 0a 00 00 45 0f b6 8f f4 03 00 00 48 c7 c7 00 d2 65 8b 4c 89 fe 89 ea e8 7f cb 0e fb 0f 0b e9 70 f1 ff ff e8 d3 0c 45 fb <0f> 0b e9 de f1 ff ff e8 c7 0c 45 fb 0f 0b e9 22 fa ff ff e8 bb 0c
RSP: 0018:ffffc9000396ed68 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: ffffffff864283dd RBX: 1ffff1100ac612f8 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc9001527c000 RSI: 0000000000000e24 RDI: 0000000000000e25
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88805630978f R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff888056309780 R11: ffffed100ac612f2 R12: 1ffff9200072dde0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880563097c0 R15: ffff888030465160
FS:  00007f5e8cb9c6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b8e00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f5e8cb9bff8 CR3: 0000000063feb000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 drv_tx net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:37 [inline]
 ieee80211_tx_frags+0x3d5/0x880 net/mac80211/tx.c:1750
 __ieee80211_xmit_fast+0xa96/0x2100 net/mac80211/tx.c:3761
 ieee80211_mesh_xmit_fast+0xb03/0xf00 net/mac80211/mesh.c:856
 __ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0x6cf/0x1540 net/mac80211/tx.c:4308
 ieee80211_subif_start_xmit+0xf2/0x570 net/mac80211/tx.c:4549
 __netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:4998 [inline]
 netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5012 [inline]
 xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3649 [inline]
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x269/0x790 net/core/dev.c:3665
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1be8/0x37e0 net/core/dev.c:4478
 packet_snd net/packet/af_packet.c:3167 [inline]
 packet_sendmsg+0x38d9/0x4a30 net/packet/af_packet.c:3199
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:730 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:745 [inline]
 sock_write_iter+0x2dc/0x420 net/socket.c:1161
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2018 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x474/0x9a0 fs/read_write.c:584
 ksys_write+0x151/0x260 fs/read_write.c:637
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x55/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:76
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x68/0xd2
RIP: 0033:0x7f5e8bd9e159
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f5e8cb9c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f5e8c026090 RCX: 00007f5e8bd9e159
RDX: 000000000000002e RSI: 0000200000000500 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f5e8be3506b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f5e8c026128 R14: 00007f5e8c026090 R15: 00007ffdcbf65848
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/10/04 18:20 linux-6.6.y a91a6aa9253c 57bbd979 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-6-kasan WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.