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WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/03/29 04:32
Subsystems: wireless
Labels: prio:low
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Reported-by: syzbot+02a1a03b8622d3c7d1c9@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fix commit: dc14686f27df wifi: cfg80211: wext: validate chandef in monitor mode
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-snapshot-upstream-root ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce 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-kmsan-gce-386-root ci-upstream-kmsan-gce-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], missing on: [ci-qemu-native-arm64-kvm ci-qemu2-riscv64 ci-upstream-gce-arm64 ci2-upstream-usb]
First crash: 63d, last: 1h41m
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e97b7b9a-dc7a-410a-9080-ccb9f9e3e5eb assessment-security DenialOfService: ❌ Exploitable: ❌ FilesystemTrigger: ❌ NetworkTrigger: ❌ PeripheralTrigger: ❌ RemoteTrigger: ❌ Unprivileged: ❌ UserNamespace: ❌ VMGuestTrigger: ❌ VMHostTrigger: ❌ WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required (2) 2026/05/22 02:26 2026/05/22 02:26 2026/05/22 03:37 d57425845dbe663f86e1e54a4997e95bd557b624
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH] wifi: cfg80211: validate chandef before calling cfg80211_set_monitor_channel 1 (1) 2026/05/10 20:24
[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required (2) 0 (1) 2026/03/29 04:32
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required wireless -1 4 817d 862d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/06/08 10:12

Sample crash report:
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!cfg80211_chandef_valid(chandef)
WARNING: net/wireless/chan.c:796 at cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required+0xe06/0xec0 net/wireless/chan.c:796, CPU#0: syz.3.3361/16850
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16850 Comm: syz.3.3361 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required+0xe06/0xec0 net/wireless/chan.c:796
Code: de e8 0e 99 c1 f6 48 83 fb 3f 0f 87 aa 00 00 00 e8 bf 94 c1 f6 b8 01 00 00 00 89 d9 48 d3 e0 e9 41 f4 ff ff e8 ab 94 c1 f6 90 <0f> 0b 90 b8 ea ff ff ff e9 2e f4 ff ff e8 b8 96 a4 00 89 d1 80 e1
RSP: 0018:ffffc90005d67700 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffffffff8b042d25 RBX: ffff88805ad0d858 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc900064d9000 RSI: 0000000000000673 RDI: 0000000000000674
RBP: ffffc90005d67890 R08: ffffffff9030b6f7 R09: 1ffffffff20616de
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff20616df R12: 0000000000000006
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffffc90005d67a00 R15: dffffc0000000000
FS:  00007fb65eb7c6c0(0000) GS:ffff88812528c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000001b34a1eff8 CR3: 0000000061caa000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 _ieee80211_link_use_channel+0x27a/0x7f0 net/mac80211/chan.c:2175
 ieee80211_link_use_channel net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h:2786 [inline]
 ieee80211_set_monitor_channel+0x692/0x8e0 net/mac80211/cfg.c:1087
 rdev_set_monitor_channel net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:453 [inline]
 cfg80211_set_monitor_channel+0x22d/0x5f0 net/wireless/chan.c:1602
 cfg80211_wext_siwfreq+0x713/0x850 net/wireless/wext-compat.c:792
 ioctl_standard_call+0xcb/0x1b0 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+0x10f/0x1d0 net/wireless/wext-core.c:1074
 sock_ioctl+0x159/0x7f0 net/socket.c:1366
 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+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fb65dd9ce59
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:00007fb65eb7c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fb65e015fa0 RCX: 00007fb65dd9ce59
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 0000000000008b04 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007fb65de32d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fb65e016038 R14: 00007fb65e015fa0 R15: 00007ffc1021b178
 </TASK>

Crashes (38):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/23 16:33 bpf 7dd62566e0d1 c69befb3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/22 09:25 bpf 49b18315be4e e16cf9f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/20 23:26 bpf 49b18315be4e 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/20 21:59 bpf 49b18315be4e 62fb93a2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/17 16:02 bpf a828abbb8976 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/27 06:31 net-next 18b9f739d3f2 2b01f00e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/21 10:15 net-next 0ae361f7e43c 41b8c833 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/20 02:06 net-next 9bf93cb2e180 0909d65f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/19 16:57 bpf-next 523d2f42b406 223544dc .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/19 03:10 bpf-next 3fc9a70a14d0 9f74d399 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/18 21:00 net-next 627ac78f2741 55156e84 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/18 04:43 net-next 627ac78f2741 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/16 21:32 bpf-next c8993263ffd3 de5aae85 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/16 04:01 net-next 55834f0d7421 81fb92f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/16 04:00 net-next 55834f0d7421 81fb92f3 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/14 11:48 net-next 1f8fd0fe5641 6ccb967e .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 16:58 net-next 63751099502d e6eb7c0b .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 05:36 bpf-next 7e033543a2ab 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 01:16 bpf-next 7e033543a2ab 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 01:16 bpf-next 7e033543a2ab 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 01:16 bpf-next 7e033543a2ab 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/11 01:15 bpf-next 7e033543a2ab 29233ece .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/04 17:25 net-next 98878ed91b68 85f1bcf2 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/05/01 08:41 bpf-next 2ca6723a5f7b 753c55b9 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/29 19:53 net-next 09942ddedcb9 804ea88f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/29 11:28 bpf-next 9f5b3ffc3f1d 804ea88f .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/27 10:32 bpf-next 7c8d208d816d 0f700595 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/26 18:44 net-next e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/26 16:37 net-next e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 17:52 net-next e728258debd5 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:27 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:27 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:26 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:26 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:26 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/25 00:25 bpf-next 789b7c1c64b9 9c2d0995 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/04/21 19:47 bpf-next c8f0ee969f76 0b6ab7ec .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-bpf-next-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
2026/03/25 04:23 net-next b1c803d5c816 35e4ff71 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-net-kasan-gce WARNING in cfg80211_chandef_dfs_required
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.