WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop

Status: upstream: reported on 2026/09/12 06:32
Reported-by: syzbot+f007ee81bb3dd463adaf@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
First crash: 5d12h, last: 5d12h
Similar bugs (4)
Kernel Title Rank 🛈 Repro Cause bisect Fix bisect Count Last Reported Patched Status
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop wireless -1 1 1524d 1520d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2022/09/13 22:46
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop (2) wireless -1 5 795d 798d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2024/10/22 18:25
linux-6.6 WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop -1 1 4d00h 4d00h 0/2 upstream: reported on 2026/09/13 18:40
upstream WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop (3) wireless -1 6 247d 389d 0/29 auto-obsoleted due to no activity on 2026/04/23 01:51

Sample crash report:
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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8634 at net/mac80211/iface.c:532 ieee80211_do_stop+0xb2c/0x1ba0 net/mac80211/iface.c:532
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 8634 Comm: syz.3.1093 Not tainted syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/07/2026
pstate: 62400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : ieee80211_do_stop+0xb2c/0x1ba0 net/mac80211/iface.c:532
lr : ieee80211_do_stop+0xb2c/0x1ba0 net/mac80211/iface.c:532
sp : ffff8000215574c0
x29: ffff800021557690 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000c6568e80
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff0000f4f78000 x24: 0000000000000007
x23: ffff800021557580 x22: ffff0000f4f7a760 x21: 0000000000000001
x20: ffff7000042aaeac x19: ffff0000f4f78c80 x18: 1fffe00033e6df7e
x17: ffff80001539d000 x16: ffff800011ba0e90 x15: ffff8000089b6798
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 1ffff000042aae60 x12: 0000000000080000
x11: 000000000007ffff x10: ffff8000297af000 x9 : ffff8000113f8ac8
x8 : 0000000000080000 x7 : ffff80000805a700 x6 : ffff80000805a910
x5 : ffff0001016efec0 x4 : ffff800021557008 x3 : ffff800011c77390
x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 ieee80211_do_stop+0xb2c/0x1ba0 net/mac80211/iface.c:532
 ieee80211_stop+0x398/0x400 net/mac80211/iface.c:815
 __dev_close_many+0x2ac/0x3a0 net/core/dev.c:1585
 dev_close_many+0x1e8/0x448 net/core/dev.c:1610
 dev_close+0x150/0x208 net/core/dev.c:1636
 cfg80211_shutdown_all_interfaces+0xb8/0x1c8 net/wireless/core.c:275
 cfg80211_rfkill_set_block+0x30/0x50 net/wireless/core.c:307
 rfkill_set_block+0x194/0x33c net/rfkill/core.c:360
 rfkill_fop_write+0x488/0x5ac net/rfkill/core.c:1318
 vfs_write+0x2a8/0x7c8 fs/read_write.c:582
 ksys_write+0x12c/0x228 fs/read_write.c:637
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:649 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:646 [inline]
 __arm64_sys_write+0x7c/0x90 fs/read_write.c:646
 __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
 invoke_syscall+0x98/0x290 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
 el0_svc_common+0x13c/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:140
 do_el0_svc+0x5c/0x134 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:204
 el0_svc+0x58/0x128 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
 el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:585
irq event stamp: 5512
hardirqs last  enabled at (5511): [<ffff8000088f6370>] kasan_quarantine_put+0xc4/0x200 mm/kasan/quarantine.c:242
hardirqs last disabled at (5512): [<ffff800011b9d0cc>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:405
softirqs last  enabled at (5472): [<ffff80001156bc6c>] spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
softirqs last  enabled at (5472): [<ffff80001156bc6c>] mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop+0x108/0x124 net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c:552
softirqs last disabled at (5470): [<ffff80001156bbb8>] spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
softirqs last disabled at (5470): [<ffff80001156bbb8>] mesh_path_flush_by_nexthop+0x54/0x124 net/mac80211/mesh_pathtbl.c:547
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Crashes (1):
Time Kernel Commit Syzkaller Config Log Report Syz repro C repro VM info Assets (help?) Manager Title
2026/09/12 06:31 linux-6.1.y cf82dcca9634 70a60e12 .config console log report info [disk image] [vmlinux] [kernel image] ci2-linux-6-1-kasan-arm64 WARNING in ieee80211_do_stop
* Struck through repros no longer work on HEAD.