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WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx (2)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/05/10 21:02
Subsystems: wireless
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Reported-by: syzbot+435fdb053cf98bfa5778@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 6d00h, last: 6d00h
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[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx (2) 0 (1) 2026/05/10 21:02
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx wireless -1 44 409d 511d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/06/07 07:17

Sample crash report:
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sp->magic != HWSIM_STA_MAGIC
WARNING: drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:265 at hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:265 [inline], CPU#1: syz.3.8603/32057
WARNING: drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:265 at hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:262 [inline], CPU#1: syz.3.8603/32057
WARNING: drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:265 at mac80211_hwsim_tx+0x2085/0x2b10 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:2213, CPU#1: syz.3.8603/32057
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 32057 Comm: syz.3.8603 Tainted: G             L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:265 [inline]
RIP: 0010:hwsim_check_sta_magic drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:262 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mac80211_hwsim_tx+0x2085/0x2b10 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:2213
Code: 44 24 20 e8 fd a6 dc fa 48 8d 3d a6 50 b8 09 48 8b 54 24 20 8b 74 24 30 89 d9 67 48 0f b9 3a e9 f7 ec ff ff e8 dc a6 dc fa 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 a0 e3 ff ff e8 ce a6 dc fa 48 8d bb f1 07 00 00 48 b8
RSP: 0018:ffffc900040eeea0 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: 000000000000075e RBX: ffff888083a0eb78 RCX: ffffc90011de4000
RDX: 0000000000080000 RSI: ffffffff872bec44 RDI: ffff8880663e0000
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 000000006d537749
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888067c460c0
R13: ffff888074694780 R14: ffff8880401231c0 R15: ffff888074694780
FS:  00007f439aedf6c0(0000) GS:ffff888124475000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000200000003540 CR3: 000000003994c000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 drv_tx net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:38 [inline]
 ieee80211_tx_frags+0x5c9/0xa70 net/mac80211/tx.c:1746
 __ieee80211_tx+0x145/0x5b0 net/mac80211/tx.c:1801
 ieee80211_tx+0x336/0x460 net/mac80211/tx.c:1984
 ieee80211_xmit+0x30f/0x3e0 net/mac80211/tx.c:2076
 __ieee80211_tx_skb_tid_band+0x2c2/0x720 net/mac80211/tx.c:6369
 ieee80211_tx_skb_tid+0x1c1/0x550 net/mac80211/tx.c:6399
 ieee80211_mgmt_tx+0x1326/0x2590 net/mac80211/offchannel.c:1029
 rdev_mgmt_tx net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:767 [inline]
 cfg80211_mlme_mgmt_tx+0x803/0x1600 net/wireless/mlme.c:961
 nl80211_tx_mgmt+0x9f9/0xf30 net/wireless/nl80211.c:14358
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x214/0x300 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1114
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1194 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x560/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1209
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x159/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x585/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
 netlink_sendmsg+0x8b0/0xda0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x9e1/0xb70 net/socket.c:2698
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x190/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2752
 __sys_sendmsg+0x170/0x220 net/socket.c:2784
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x10b/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4399f9cdd9
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:00007f439aedf028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f439a216090 RCX: 00007f4399f9cdd9
RDX: 0000000028004800 RSI: 0000200000003740 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f439a032d69 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f439a216128 R14: 00007f439a216090 R15: 00007ffff74f7008
 </TASK>

Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/05/06 20:58 upstream adc1e5c6203c cbcd9ea0 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-upstream-kasan-gce-selinux-root WARNING in mac80211_hwsim_tx
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.