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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon (2)

Status: upstream: reported C repro on 2025/11/18 09:12
Subsystems: wireless
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Reported-by: syzbot+b59873f5699e941717ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 7d04h, last: 6d19h
Discussions (2)
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[PATCH] wifi: mac80211: Fix suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon() 1 (1) 2025/11/22 06:06
[syzbot] [wireless?] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon (2) 0 (1) 2025/11/18 09:12
Similar bugs (1)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon wireless 4 C 7 52d 80d 0/29 closed as invalid on 2025/11/04 11:28

Sample crash report:
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f4e229e5fa0 R14: 00007f4e229e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>
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WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
syzkaller #0 Not tainted
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net/mac80211/mesh.c:1571 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:


rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
2 locks held by syz.0.17/5477:
 #0: ffffffff8f333750 (cb_lock){++++}-{4:4}, at: genl_rcv+0x19/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1218
 #1: ffff888059ba0788 (&rdev->wiphy.mtx){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: wiphy_lock include/net/cfg80211.h:6343 [inline]
 #1: ffff888059ba0788 (&rdev->wiphy.mtx){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: nl80211_pre_doit+0x281/0x930 net/wireless/nl80211.c:17999

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5477 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) 
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x1d0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6876
 ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon+0x280/0x2c0 net/mac80211/mesh.c:1571
 ieee80211_set_csa_beacon+0x3cc/0x9a0 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4288
 __ieee80211_channel_switch net/mac80211/cfg.c:4406 [inline]
 ieee80211_channel_switch+0x8ef/0xcb0 net/mac80211/cfg.c:4442
 rdev_channel_switch+0x108/0x290 net/wireless/rdev-ops.h:1116
 nl80211_channel_switch+0xac9/0xd70 net/wireless/nl80211.c:11475
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x215/0x300 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x60e/0x790 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
 genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x82f/0x9e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x830 net/socket.c:2630
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2684
 __sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2716 [inline]
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2721 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2719 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x19b/0x260 net/socket.c:2719
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xfa0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f4e2278f6c9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 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 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe9e0535c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f4e229e5fa0 RCX: 00007f4e2278f6c9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000004180 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffe9e053620 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000002
R13: 00007f4e229e5fa0 R14: 00007f4e229e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000003
 </TASK>

Crashes (6):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2025/11/15 18:28 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
2025/11/15 16:35 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
2025/11/15 14:52 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
2025/11/15 13:44 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
2025/11/15 12:00 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report syz / log C [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
2025/11/15 10:07 upstream 7a0892d2836e f7988ea4 .config console log report [disk image (non-bootable)] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci-snapshot-upstream-root WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ieee80211_mesh_csa_beacon
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.