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WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links (3)

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/02/26 03:22
Subsystems: wireless
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Reported-by: syzbot+582469b3a9ef5f13606b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d02h, last: 2d02h
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[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links (3) 0 (1) 2026/02/26 03:22
Similar bugs (2)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links wireless -1 C 2 406d 423d 28/29 fixed on 2025/05/06 15:33
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links (2) wireless -1 1 186d 182d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2025/12/03 02:32

Sample crash report:
wlan1: Created IBSS using preconfigured BSSID 50:50:50:50:50:50
wlan1: Creating new IBSS network, BSSID 50:50:50:50:50:50
------------[ cut here ]------------
wlan0: Failed check-sdata-in-driver check, flags: 0x0
WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1723 at drv_can_activate_links net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1723 [inline], CPU#0: kworker/u10:3/11668
WARNING: net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1723 at ieee80211_set_active_links+0x2d0/0x9d0 net/mac80211/link.c:595, CPU#0: kworker/u10:3/11668
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 11668 Comm: kworker/u10:3 Tainted: G     U       L      syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Tainted: [U]=USER, [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 02/12/2026
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work
RIP: 0010:drv_can_activate_links net/mac80211/driver-ops.h:1723 [inline]
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_set_active_links+0x2d7/0x9d0 net/mac80211/link.c:595
Code: 06 00 00 e8 fb 8e 05 f7 48 8b 34 24 48 81 c6 20 01 00 00 48 89 34 24 e8 e7 8e 05 f7 48 8d 3d 20 ef e7 05 48 8b 34 24 44 89 fa <67> 48 0f b9 3a e9 e0 fe ff ff e8 ca 8e 05 f7 0f b7 c5 4c 8d bb 30
RSP: 0018:ffffc90004947af0 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888029d2aa90 RCX: ffffffff8b026bfe
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff888029d28120 RDI: ffffffff90ea5b80
RBP: 000000000000000a R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888029d297f8
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8881446c8e80 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888124351000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005641c1b014d8 CR3: 000000002d732000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ieee80211_if_parse_active_links+0xbb/0x120 net/mac80211/debugfs_netdev.c:732
 wiphy_locked_debugfs_write_work+0xe6/0x1c0 net/wireless/debugfs.c:248
 cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x446/0x5c0 net/wireless/core.c:440
 process_one_work+0x9d7/0x1920 kernel/workqueue.c:3275
 process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3358 [inline]
 worker_thread+0x5da/0xe40 kernel/workqueue.c:3439
 kthread+0x370/0x450 kernel/kthread.c:467
 ret_from_fork+0x754/0xd80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>
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Code disassembly (best guess), 1 bytes skipped:
   0:	00 00                	add    %al,(%rax)
   2:	e8 fb 8e 05 f7       	call   0xf7058f02
   7:	48 8b 34 24          	mov    (%rsp),%rsi
   b:	48 81 c6 20 01 00 00 	add    $0x120,%rsi
  12:	48 89 34 24          	mov    %rsi,(%rsp)
  16:	e8 e7 8e 05 f7       	call   0xf7058f02
  1b:	48 8d 3d 20 ef e7 05 	lea    0x5e7ef20(%rip),%rdi        # 0x5e7ef42
  22:	48 8b 34 24          	mov    (%rsp),%rsi
  26:	44 89 fa             	mov    %r15d,%edx
* 29:	67 48 0f b9 3a       	ud1    (%edx),%rdi <-- trapping instruction
  2e:	e9 e0 fe ff ff       	jmp    0xffffff13
  33:	e8 ca 8e 05 f7       	call   0xf7058f02
  38:	0f b7 c5             	movzwl %bp,%eax
  3b:	4c                   	rex.WR
  3c:	8d                   	.byte 0x8d
  3d:	bb                   	.byte 0xbb
  3e:	30                   	.byte 0x30

Crashes (2):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/02/25 02:50 upstream 7dff99b35460 787dfb7c .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links
2026/02/22 03:18 upstream d79526b89571 6e7b5511 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-qemu-gce-upstream-auto WARNING in ieee80211_set_active_links
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.