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[PATCH wireless 4/8] wifi: cfg80211: only group hidden BSSes with beacon entries

From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2026-09-04 14:56:27
Subsystem: 802.11 (including cfg80211/nl80211), the rest · Maintainers: Johannes Berg, Linus Torvalds

From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

When a probe response for an unknown BSS comes in, __cfg80211_bss_update()
looks for an existing entry with the same BSSID and a hidden (zero-length
or NUL-filled) SSID, and if it finds one it groups them, using the beacon
IEs from the existing entry.

But that could find another entry without a beacon, if it was also from a
probe response (with SSID), so there's a group without beacon elements.

If a beacon with a hidden SSID for that BSSID arrives later,
cfg80211_combine_bsses() goes looking for the probe response entries that
belong to it - i.e. entries with the same BSSID and channel that have no
beacon IEs - and finds those two. They are already grouped with each
other, so it hits its

  WARN_ON_ONCE(bss->pub.hidden_beacon_bss)
  WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&bss->hidden_list))

which are there because an entry without beacon elements is not supposed
to be part of a group yet.

Only combine entries when a beacon was already received, ones that are
kept separate will be combined when a beacon arrives.

Assisted-by: LLM
Fixes: 4593c4cbe1c9 ("cfg80211: fix BSS list hidden SSID lookup")
Reported-by: syzbot+1a797e1c81be78a2ace7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=1a797e1c81be78a2ace7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <redacted>
---
 net/wireless/scan.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/wireless/scan.c b/net/wireless/scan.c
index 4fe114f6aee3..604b10ef0f94 100644
--- a/net/wireless/scan.c
+++ b/net/wireless/scan.c
@@ -2077,6 +2077,13 @@ __cfg80211_bss_update(struct cfg80211_registered_device *rdev,
 			if (!hidden)
 				hidden = rb_find_bss(rdev, tmp,
 						     BSS_CMP_HIDE_NUL);
+			/*
+			 * Only group with an entry with beacon data, otherwise
+			 * beacon data can never be filled/updated.
+			 */
+			if (hidden &&
+			    !rcu_access_pointer(hidden->pub.beacon_ies))
+				hidden = NULL;
 			if (hidden) {
 				new->pub.hidden_beacon_bss = &hidden->pub;
 				list_add(&new->hidden_list,
-- 
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