WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (4)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/09 22:09
Reported-by: syzbot+23f9669c052eaaa6bc0c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 13h39m, last: 13h39m
Similar bugs (11)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list wireless -1 syz, C inconclusive error 3489 824d 2177d 26/29 fixed on 2024/06/18 10:18
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (2) wireless -1 4 803d 806d 26/29 fixed on 2024/08/06 11:02
linux-5.15 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list origin:lts-only -1 syz error 5 780d 886d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/29 16:41
linux-5.15 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (2) -1 1 528d 528d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/07/08 17:04
linux-6.1 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (4) -1 2 9d12h 9d13h 0/3 upstream: reported on 2026/08/31 22:17
linux-6.1 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (3) -1 1 120d 120d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/08/20 18:34
linux-6.6 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list -1 2 16d 111d 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/05/21 13:48
linux-5.15 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (3) -1 1 423d 423d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/10/21 12:19
linux-6.1 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list -1 1 769d 769d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/11/09 19:50
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (3) prio:low wireless -1 syz, C error done 52 36d 731d 0/29 upstream: reported C repro on 2024/09/09 00:10
linux-6.1 WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list (2) -1 1 343d 343d 0/3 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/01/09 12:28

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7805 at net/mac80211/rx.c:4918 ieee80211_rx_list+0x1e13/0x25e0 net/mac80211/rx.c:4918
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 7805 Comm: syz.0.933 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/24/2026
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_rx_list+0x1e13/0x25e0 net/mac80211/rx.c:4918
Code: 0f 0b e9 22 e6 ff ff e8 1b aa 29 f8 e9 18 e6 ff ff e8 11 aa 29 f8 e9 0e e6 ff ff e8 07 aa 29 f8 e9 04 e6 ff ff e8 fd a9 29 f8 <0f> 0b e9 f8 e5 ff ff e8 f1 a9 29 f8 48 c7 44 24 58 00 00 00 00 e9
RSP: 0018:ffffc90000dd09e0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffffffff894f65a3 RBX: ffff88807f7a163c RCX: ffff88801e8cd940
RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: ffffc90000dd0bf0 R08: dffffc0000000000 R09: 1ffffffff203de18
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff203de19 R12: ffff88807f7a0e00
R13: ffff88805bdac000 R14: dffffc0000000000 R15: ffff88807f7a33a8
FS:  00007f36c3d2c6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880b9100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f154a136ff8 CR3: 000000005af95000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000200000000300 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000600
Call Trace:
 <IRQ>
 ieee80211_rx_napi+0x17f/0x390 net/mac80211/rx.c:5020
 ieee80211_rx include/net/mac80211.h:4573 [inline]
 ieee80211_handle_queued_frames+0x104/0x1a0 net/mac80211/main.c:237
 tasklet_action_common+0x2ad/0x410 kernel/softirq.c:806
 handle_softirqs+0x336/0x830 kernel/softirq.c:576
 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:610 [inline]
 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:450 [inline]
 __irq_exit_rcu+0x13b/0x230 kernel/softirq.c:659
 irq_exit_rcu+0x5/0x20 kernel/softirq.c:671
 instr_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108 [inline]
 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa0/0xc0 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1108
 </IRQ>
 <TASK>
 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/include/asm/idtentry.h:676
RIP: 0010:finish_lock_switch+0x12f/0x290 kernel/sched/core.c:4804
Code: 83 c7 18 be ff ff ff ff e8 0e 1b 6c 08 85 c0 74 46 4d 85 ff 75 62 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 df e8 c8 8a 75 08 e8 f3 df 2a 00 fb 5b <41> 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 48 89 df e8 2f 0e fe ff 43 80 3c 2c
RSP: 0018:ffffc90003dff078 EFLAGS: 00000282
RAX: c429d29f74dd9700 RBX: ffff888079d98000 RCX: c429d29f74dd9700
RDX: dffffc0000000000 RSI: ffffffff8a2b2be0 RDI: ffffffff8a7a4540
RBP: 1ffff11017227613 R08: ffff8880b913a343 R09: 1ffff11017227468
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: ffffed1017227469 R12: 1ffff110172275c1
R13: dffffc0000000000 R14: ffff8880b913ae08 R15: 0000000000000000
 finish_task_switch+0x12f/0x650 kernel/sched/core.c:4921
 context_switch kernel/sched/core.c:5052 [inline]
 __schedule+0x11cb/0x4350 kernel/sched/core.c:6395
 preempt_schedule_common+0x82/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6571
 preempt_schedule+0xbc/0xd0 kernel/sched/core.c:6596
 preempt_schedule_thunk+0x16/0x18 arch/x86/entry/thunk_64.S:34
 unwind_next_frame+0x1202/0x1cf0 arch/x86/kernel/unwind_orc.c:616
 arch_stack_walk+0x10c/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:25
 stack_trace_save+0xa6/0xf0 kernel/stacktrace.c:122
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:38 [inline]
 kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:46 [inline]
 set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:434 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x92/0xc0 mm/kasan/common.c:467
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:254 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook+0x4c/0x380 mm/slab.h:519
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3225 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x184/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:3261
 alloc_vmap_area+0x199/0x1b30 mm/vmalloc.c:1538
 __get_vm_area_node+0x14f/0x2d0 mm/vmalloc.c:2430
 __vmalloc_node_range+0xef/0x8b0 mm/vmalloc.c:3027
 __vmalloc_node mm/vmalloc.c:3087 [inline]
 __vmalloc+0x76/0x80 mm/vmalloc.c:3101
 bpf_prog_alloc_no_stats+0x36/0x2c0 kernel/bpf/core.c:90
 bpf_prog_alloc+0x1a/0x1e0 kernel/bpf/core.c:124
 bpf_prog_load+0x7d1/0x14e0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:2301
 __sys_bpf+0x532/0x6f0 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4657
 __do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4761 [inline]
 __se_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4759 [inline]
 __x64_sys_bpf+0x78/0x90 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4759
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0xa0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x66/0xd0
RIP: 0033:0x7f36c5ad4159
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:00007f36c3d2c028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f36c5d5bfa0 RCX: 00007f36c5ad4159
RDX: 0000000000000094 RSI: 00002000000000c0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 00007f36c5b6b03b R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f36c5d5c038 R14: 00007f36c5d5bfa0 R15: 00007fff4cd922d8
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess):
   0:	83 c7 18             	add    $0x18,%edi
   3:	be ff ff ff ff       	mov    $0xffffffff,%esi
   8:	e8 0e 1b 6c 08       	call   0x86c1b1b
   d:	85 c0                	test   %eax,%eax
   f:	74 46                	je     0x57
  11:	4d 85 ff             	test   %r15,%r15
  14:	75 62                	jne    0x78
  16:	0f 1f 44 00 00       	nopl   0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
  1b:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  1e:	e8 c8 8a 75 08       	call   0x8758aeb
  23:	e8 f3 df 2a 00       	call   0x2ae01b
  28:	fb                   	sti
  29:	5b                   	pop    %rbx
* 2a:	41 5c                	pop    %r12 <-- trapping instruction
  2c:	41 5d                	pop    %r13
  2e:	41 5e                	pop    %r14
  30:	41 5f                	pop    %r15
  32:	5d                   	pop    %rbp
  33:	c3                   	ret
  34:	48 89 df             	mov    %rbx,%rdi
  37:	e8 2f 0e fe ff       	call   0xfffe0e6b
  3c:	43                   	rex.XB
  3d:	80                   	.byte 0x80
  3e:	3c 2c                	cmp    $0x2c,%al

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/09 22:09 linux-5.15.y 0996e0926f6b 4e8b1cc6 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-5-15-kasan-perf WARNING in ieee80211_rx_list
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.