WARNING in cfg80211_wext_siwrate

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/08/07 00:01
Subsystems: wireless
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+af177aa139efdd13a9da@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d02h, last: 1d22h
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4b3348f3 assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ✅ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in cfg80211_wext_siwrate 2026/08/04 01:44 2026/08/04 01:44 2026/08/04 02:15 cb1adeae
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[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in cfg80211_wext_siwrate 0 (1) 2026/08/07 00:01

Sample crash report:
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wlan1: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0
WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:884 at drv_set_bitrate_mask net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:884 [inline], CPU#1: syz.1.7134/31079
WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:884 at ieee80211_set_bitrate_mask+0x1034/0x1320 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4134, CPU#1: syz.1.7134/31079
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 31079 Comm: syz.1.7134 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:drv_set_bitrate_mask net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:884 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_set_bitrate_mask+0x1084/0x1320 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4134
Code: 20 01 00 00 48 85 c0 49 0f 44 ee 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 0f b6 04 03 84 c0 0f 85 3b 01 00 00 41 8b 17 4c 89 ef 48 89 ee <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 c3 fd ff ff e8 ad 3b 82 f6 90 0f 0b 90 e9 41 fe
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004457778 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 1ffff11006ac0325 RCX: dffffc0000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888035600120 RDI: ffffffff9069c4f0
RBP: ffff888035600120 R08: ffff888069d60faf R09: 1ffff1100d3ac1f5
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed100d3ac1f6 R12: ffff888069d60740
R13: ffffffff9069c4f0 R14: ffff888035601938 R15: ffff888035601928
FS:  00007f1ff74ce6c0(0000) GS:ffff888125050000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b2f81aff8 CR3: 000000007c55c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 rdev_set_bitrate_mask net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:683 [inline]
 cfg80211_wext_siwrate+0x78d/0x9d0 net/wireless/wext-compat.c:1238
 ioctl_standard_call+0xc5/0x160 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1042
 wireless_process_ioctl net/wireless/wext-core.c:-1 [inline]
 wext_ioctl_dispatch+0xee/0x410 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1013
 wext_handle_ioctl+0x110/0x1d0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1074
 sock_ioctl+0x159/0x7e0 net/socket.c:1353
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f1ff659e0d9
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:00007f1ff74ce028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f1ff6825fa0 RCX: 00007f1ff659e0d9
RDX: 0000200000000040 RSI: 0000000000008b20 RDI: 0000000000000008
RBP: 00007f1ff6635024 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f1ff6826038 R14: 00007f1ff6825fa0 R15: 00007ffebb92fee8
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	20 01                	and    %al,(%rcx)
   2:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   4:	48 85 c0             	test   %rax,%rax
   7:	49 0f 44 ee          	cmove  %r14,%rbp
   b:	48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 	movabs $0xdffffc0000000000,%rax
  12:	fc ff df
  15:	0f b6 04 03          	movzbl (%rbx,%rax,1),%eax
  19:	84 c0                	test   %al,%al
  1b:	0f 85 3b 01 00 00    	jne    0x15c
  21:	41 8b 17             	mov    (%r15),%edx
  24:	4c 89 ef             	mov    %r13,%rdi
  27:	48 89 ee             	mov    %rbp,%rsi
* 2a:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2f:	e9 c3 fd ff ff       	jmp    0xfffffdf7
  34:	e8 ad 3b 82 f6       	call   0xf6823be6
  39:	90                   	nop
  3a:	0f 0b                	ud2
  3c:	90                   	nop
  3d:	e9                   	.byte 0xe9
  3e:	41                   	rex.B
  3f:	fe                   	.byte 0xfe

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/08/06 01:19 bpf 31a420a822ff cd5b1963 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_wext_siwrate
2026/08/02 21:12 bpf fdeba03fea78 e611ffe1 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_wext_siwrate
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.