Re: [PATCH RFC v2] wifi: mac80211: prevent destroying non-TDLS stations in TDLS operations

#syz upstream

On 8/3/2026 5:36 PM, syzbot wrote:
> When userspace sends a NL80211_CMD_TDLS_OPER command with the
> NL80211_TDLS_DISABLE_LINK operation, the request is handled by
> ieee80211_tdls_oper(). The code for this operation directly calls
> sta_info_destroy_addr() to destroy the station entry associated with the
> provided MAC address. Unlike the NL80211_TDLS_ENABLE_LINK case, which
> correctly verifies that the target station exists and is actually a TDLS
> peer, the disable link path blindly destroys whatever station matches the
> MAC address.
>
> If the provided MAC address is the AP's MAC address, this causes the AP's
> station entry to be destroyed while the interface is still associated.
> Later, when the driver attempts to send a probe request to the AP, it looks
> up the AP's station entry, which returns NULL, triggering a warning in
> ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send():
>
> WARNING: net/mac80211/mlme.c:4898 at
> ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send+0x497/0x560 net/mac80211/mlme.c:4898
> RIP: 0010:ieee80211_mgd_probe_ap_send+0x497/0x560 net/mac80211/mlme.c:4898
> Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x29e/0x420 net/wireless/core.c:538
>   process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
>   process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
>   worker_thread+0xa47/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
>   kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
>   ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
>   ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
>   </TASK>
>
> A similar issue exists in ieee80211_tdls_peer_del_work() which is queued by
> ieee80211_tdls_mgmt_setup(). If a TDLS setup request is sent with the AP's
> MAC address, the AP's station entry will be destroyed when the setup
> timeout expires.
>
> Fix this by explicitly verifying that the station exists and is a TDLS peer
> (sta->sta.tdls == true) before destroying it in both ieee80211_tdls_oper()
> and ieee80211_tdls_peer_del_work().
>
> Fixes: dfe018bf9953 ("mac80211: handle TDLS high-level commands and frames")
> Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.5-flash Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro-preview syzbot
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=a59b5291776979816910
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=986e342d-a720-47ab-84bf-e8be0e8b70e5
> To: "Johannes Berg" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> To: "Arik Nemtsov" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
>
> ---
> v2:
> - In ieee80211_tdls_peer_del_work(), use sta_info_destroy_addr() instead of __sta_info_destroy() to destroy the station.
>
> v1:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/T/
> ---
> diff --git a/net/mac80211/tdls.c b/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> index ffd575a8d..eef1dde1c 100644
> --- a/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> +++ b/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> @@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ void ieee80211_tdls_peer_del_work(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct wiphy_work *wk)
>   	lockdep_assert_wiphy(local->hw.wiphy);
>   
>   	if (!is_zero_ether_addr(sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer)) {
> +		struct sta_info *sta;
> +
>   		tdls_dbg(sdata, "TDLS del peer %pM\n", sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer);
> -		sta_info_destroy_addr(sdata, sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer);
> +		sta = sta_info_get(sdata, sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer);
> +		if (sta && sta->sta.tdls)
> +			sta_info_destroy_addr(sdata, sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer);
>   		eth_zero_addr(sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer);
>   	}
>   }
> @@ -1462,6 +1466,10 @@ int ieee80211_tdls_oper(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
>   			     !ether_addr_equal(sdata->u.mgd.tdls_peer, peer));
>   		break;
>   	case NL80211_TDLS_DISABLE_LINK:
> +		sta = sta_info_get(sdata, peer);
> +		if (!sta || !sta->sta.tdls)
> +			return -ENOLINK;
> +
>   		/*
>   		 * The teardown message in ieee80211_tdls_mgmt_teardown() was
>   		 * created while the queues were stopped, so it might still be
> @@ -1476,7 +1484,7 @@ int ieee80211_tdls_oper(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev,
>   		/* flush a potentially queued teardown packet */
>   		ieee80211_flush_queues(local, sdata, false);
>   
> -		ret = sta_info_destroy_addr(sdata, peer);
> +		ret = __sta_info_destroy(sta);
>   
>   		iee80211_tdls_recalc_ht_protection(sdata, NULL);
>   
>
>
> base-commit: f5098b6bae761e346ebcd9da7f95622c04733cff