wifi: mac80211: unlist vifs when their netdev is unregistered

Browse source

mac80211 only removes vifs from the local->interfaces list when
an interface is removed via ieee80211_if_remove(), before it
unregisters the netdev. However, it's possible for a netdev to
be unregistered without going through that: When the netns that
holds the wiphy is destroyed, the wiphy is supposed to move to
the init_ns, but that can run into allocation failures.

Then, mac80211 has an interface listed that doesn't exist, and
will eventually hit

  BUG: failure at net/wireless/core.h:141/wiphy_to_rdev()!
  ...
  _cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x24/0x36a [cfg80211]
  cfg80211_unregister_wdev+0x15/0x1d [cfg80211]
  ieee80211_remove_interfaces+0x1ff/0x257 [mac80211]
  ieee80211_unregister_hw+0x73/0x1d1 [mac80211]
  mac80211_hwsim_del_radio+0x114/0x166 [mac80211_hwsim]

Remove the interface from the list in ->ndo_uninit if it's still
around to avoid this.

Assisted-by: LLM
Fixes: 463d018323 ("cfg80211: make aware of net namespaces")
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260904170220.038ad73e6c04.I990abca78483e058746b6f42b4796717c3028164@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

...

This commit is contained in:

Johannes Berg 2026-09-04 17:02:01 +02:00

parent a41bd1938a

commit eee2efd828

1 changed files with 25 additions and 1 deletions

Show all changes Ignore whitespace when comparing lines Ignore changes in amount of whitespace Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL

Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

26

net/mac80211/iface.c

View file