kernel/linux.git/net/mac80211, branch v7.0.10

wifi: mac80211: handle VHT EXT NSS in ieee80211_determine_our_sta_mode()

2026-05-23T11:08:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit b5b8e295973083abf823fb66647a7c702a8db8a7 ] A station which has a NSS ratio on the number of streams it is capable of in 160MHz VHT operation is supposed to use the 'Extended NSS BW Support' as defined by section '9.4.2.156.2 VHT Capabilities Information field'. This was missing in ieee80211_determine_our_sta_mode() and so we would wrongfully downgrade our bandwidth when connecting to an AP that supported 160MHz with messages such as: [ 37.638346] wlan1: AP XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX changed bandwidth in assoc response, new used config is 5280.000 MHz, width 3 (5290.000/0 MHz) Fixes: 310c8387c638 ("wifi: mac80211: clean up connection process") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Escande Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260327100256.3101348-1-nico.escande@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

wifi: mac80211: remove station if connection prep fails

2026-05-14T13:31:03+00:00

commit 283fc9e44ff5b5ac967439b4951b80bd4299f4e4 upstream. If connection preparation fails for MLO connections, then the interface is completely reset to non-MLD. In this case, we must not keep the station since it's related to the link of the vif being removed. Delete an existing station. Any "new_sta" is already being removed, so that doesn't need changes. This fixes a use-after-free/double-free in debugfs if that's enabled, because a vif going from MLD (and to MLD, but that's not relevant here) recreates its entire debugfs. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 81151ce462e5 ("wifi: mac80211: support MLO authentication/association with one link") Reviewed-by: Miriam Rachel Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151533.c4e52deb06ad.Iafe56cec7de8512626169496b134bce3a6c17010@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: mac80211: use safe list iteration in radar detect work

2026-05-14T13:31:03+00:00

commit ac8eb3e18f41e2cc8492cc1d358bcb786c850270 upstream. The call to ieee80211_dfs_cac_cancel can cause the iterated chanctx to be freed and removed from the list. Guard against this to avoid a slab-use-after-free error. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: bca8bc0399ac ("wifi: mac80211: handle ieee80211_radar_detected() for MLO") Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505151539.236d63a1b736.I35dbb9e96a2d4a480be208770fdd99ba3b817b79@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: mac80211: drop stray 'static' from fast-RX rx_result

2026-05-14T13:31:03+00:00

commit 7a5b81e0c87a075afd572f659d8eb68c9c4cd2ba upstream. ieee80211_invoke_fast_rx() is documented as safe for parallel RX, but its per-invocation rx_result is declared static. Concurrent callers then share one instance and can overwrite each other's result between ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() and the switch on res. That can make a packet that was queued or consumed by ieee80211_rx_mesh_data() fall through into ieee80211_rx_8023(), or make a packet that should continue return as queued. Make res an automatic variable so each invocation keeps its own result. Fixes: 3468e1e0c639 ("wifi: mac80211: add mesh fast-rx support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Catherine Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424131435.83212-2-enderaoelyther@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

wifi: mac80211: always free skb on ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() failure

2026-03-18T08:09:58+00:00

ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() has three error paths, but only two of them free the skb. The first error path (ieee80211_tx_prepare() returning TX_DROP) does not free it, while invoke_tx_handlers() failure and the fragmentation check both do. Add kfree_skb() to the first error path so all three are consistent, and remove the now-redundant frees in callers (ath9k, mt76, mac80211_hwsim) to avoid double-free. Document the skb ownership guarantee in the function's kdoc. Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260314065455.2462900-1-nbd@nbd.name Fixes: 06be6b149f7e ("mac80211: add ieee80211_tx_prepare_skb() helper function") Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: fix NULL deref in mesh_matches_local()

2026-03-18T08:01:16+00:00

mesh_matches_local() unconditionally dereferences ie->mesh_config to compare mesh configuration parameters. When called from mesh_rx_csa_frame(), the parsed action-frame elements may not contain a Mesh Configuration IE, leaving ie->mesh_config NULL and triggering a kernel NULL pointer dereference. The other two callers are already safe: - ieee80211_mesh_rx_bcn_presp() checks !elems->mesh_config before calling mesh_matches_local() - mesh_plink_get_event() is only reached through mesh_process_plink_frame(), which checks !elems->mesh_config, too mesh_rx_csa_frame() is the only caller that passes raw parsed elements to mesh_matches_local() without guarding mesh_config. An adjacent attacker can exploit this by sending a crafted CSA action frame that includes a valid Mesh ID IE but omits the Mesh Configuration IE, crashing the kernel. The captured crash log: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address ... KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007] Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work [...] Call Trace: ? __pfx_mesh_matches_local (net/mac80211/mesh.c:65) ieee80211_mesh_rx_queued_mgmt (net/mac80211/mesh.c:1686) [...] ieee80211_iface_work (net/mac80211/iface.c:1754 net/mac80211/iface.c:1802) [...] cfg80211_wiphy_work (net/wireless/core.c:426) process_one_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3280) ? assign_work (net/kernel/workqueue.c:1219) worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3352) ? __pfx_worker_thread (net/kernel/workqueue.c:3385) kthread (net/kernel/kthread.c:436) [...] ret_from_fork_asm (net/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:255) This patch adds a NULL check for ie->mesh_config at the top of mesh_matches_local() to return false early when the Mesh Configuration IE is absent. Fixes: 2e3c8736820b ("mac80211: support functions for mesh") Reported-by: Weiming Shi Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318034244.2595020-1-xmei5@asu.edu Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: check tdls flag in ieee80211_tdls_oper

2026-03-13T13:51:38+00:00

When NL80211_TDLS_ENABLE_LINK is called, the code only checks if the station exists but not whether it is actually a TDLS station. This allows the operation to proceed for non-TDLS stations, causing unintended side effects like modifying channel context and HT protection before failing. Add a check for sta->sta.tdls early in the ENABLE_LINK case, before any side effects occur, to ensure the operation is only allowed for actual TDLS peers. Reported-by: syzbot+56b6a844a4ea74487b7b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=56b6a844a4ea74487b7b Tested-by: syzbot+56b6a844a4ea74487b7b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260313092417.520807-1-kartikey406@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: Fix static_branch_dec() underflow for aql_disable.

2026-03-06T10:09:31+00:00

syzbot reported static_branch_dec() underflow in aql_enable_write(). [0] The problem is that aql_enable_write() does not serialise concurrent write()s to the debugfs. aql_enable_write() checks static_key_false(&aql_disable.key) and later calls static_branch_inc() or static_branch_dec(), but the state may change between the two calls. aql_disable does not need to track inc/dec. Let's use static_branch_enable() and static_branch_disable(). [0]: val == 0 WARNING: kernel/jump_label.c:311 at __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked.part.0+0x107/0x120 kernel/jump_label.c:311, CPU#0: syz.1.3155/20288 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 20288 Comm: syz.1.3155 Tainted: G U L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Tainted: [U]=USER, [L]=SOFTLOCKUP Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/24/2026 RIP: 0010:__static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked.part.0+0x107/0x120 kernel/jump_label.c:311 Code: f2 c9 ff 5b 5d c3 cc cc cc cc e8 54 f2 c9 ff 48 89 df e8 ac f9 ff ff eb ad e8 45 f2 c9 ff 90 0f 0b 90 eb a2 e8 3a f2 c9 ff 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb 97 48 89 df e8 5c 4b 33 00 e9 36 ff ff ff 0f 1f 80 00 RSP: 0018:ffffc9000b9f7c10 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff9b3e5d40 RCX: ffffffff823c57b4 RDX: ffff8880285a0000 RSI: ffffffff823c5846 RDI: ffff8880285a0000 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 000000000000000a R13: 1ffff9200173ef88 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffc9000b9f7e98 FS: 00007f530dd726c0(0000) GS:ffff8881245e3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000200000001140 CR3: 000000007cc4a000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: __static_key_slow_dec_cpuslocked kernel/jump_label.c:297 [inline] __static_key_slow_dec kernel/jump_label.c:321 [inline] static_key_slow_dec+0x7c/0xc0 kernel/jump_label.c:336 aql_enable_write+0x2b2/0x310 net/mac80211/debugfs.c:343 short_proxy_write+0x133/0x1a0 fs/debugfs/file.c:383 vfs_write+0x2aa/0x1070 fs/read_write.c:684 ksys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:793 [inline] __do_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:801 [inline] __se_sys_pwrite64 fs/read_write.c:798 [inline] __x64_sys_pwrite64+0x1eb/0x250 fs/read_write.c:798 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xc9/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f530cf9aeb9 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:00007f530dd72028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000012 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f530d215fa0 RCX: 00007f530cf9aeb9 RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000010 RBP: 00007f530d008c1f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 4200000000000005 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007f530d216038 R14: 00007f530d215fa0 R15: 00007ffde89fb978 Fixes: e908435e402a ("mac80211: introduce aql_enable node in debugfs") Reported-by: syzbot+feb9ce36a95341bb47a4@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/69a8979e.a70a0220.b118c.0025.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306072405.3649474-1-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

mac80211: fix crash in ieee80211_chan_bw_change for AP_VLAN stations

2026-03-06T10:08:43+00:00

ieee80211_chan_bw_change() iterates all stations and accesses link->reserved.oper via sta->sdata->link[link_id]. For stations on AP_VLAN interfaces (e.g. 4addr WDS clients), sta->sdata points to the VLAN sdata, whose link never participates in chanctx reservations. This leaves link->reserved.oper zero-initialized with chan == NULL, causing a NULL pointer dereference in __ieee80211_sta_cap_rx_bw() when accessing chandef->chan->band during CSA. Resolve the VLAN sdata to its parent AP sdata using get_bss_sdata() before accessing link data. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260305170812.2904208-1-nbd@nbd.name [also change sta->sdata in ARRAY_SIZE even if it doesn't matter] Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg

wifi: mac80211: use jiffies_delta_to_msecs() for sta_info inactive times

2026-03-06T10:06:27+00:00

Inactive times of around 0xffffffff milliseconds have been observed on an ath9k device on ARM. This is likely due to a memory ordering race in the jiffies_to_msecs(jiffies - last_active()) calculation causing an overflow when the observed jiffies is below ieee80211_sta_last_active(). Use jiffies_delta_to_msecs() instead to avoid this problem. Fixes: 7bbdd2d98797 ("mac80211: implement station stats retrieval") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Cavallari Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260303161701.31808-1-nicolas.cavallari@green-communications.fr Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg