From: Johannes Berg 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 --- 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, -- 2.55.0