[PATCH] wifi: mt76: mt7925: add wcid publish check in mt76_sta_add

From: Jiajia Liu

Date: Tue May 26 2026 - 02:09:15 EST


Since mt7925_mac_sta_add publishes wcid, add publish check in mt76_sta_add
to avoid reinitializing the wcid->poll_list for mt7925.

Found dev->sta_poll_list corruption when using mt7925 and 7.0-rc4.
According to the corruption information, prev->next was changed to itself.

wlan0: disconnect from AP 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e3 for new auth to 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e2
wlan0: authenticate with 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e2 (local address=84:9e:56:9c:7e:6b)
wlan0: send auth to 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e2 (try 1/3)
slab kmalloc-8k start ffff8c80958a6000 pointer offset 4160 size 8192
list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffff8c808a7488f8), but was ffff8c80958a7040. (prev=ffff8c80958a7040).

mt76_wcid_add_poll+0x95/0xd0 [mt76]
mt7925_mac_add_txs.part.0+0xa5/0xe0 [mt7925_common]
mt7925_rx_check+0xa7/0xc0 [mt7925_common]
mt76_dma_rx_poll+0x50d/0x790 [mt76]
mt792x_poll_rx+0x52/0xe0 [mt792x_lib]

Signed-off-by: Jiajia Liu <liujiajia@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Reproduced and tested using the script below over ssh. Roam between two
bssids with the same SSID on a router.

#!/bin/bash

set -ex

while :; do
num=$(sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep Polaris | wc -l)
if [ $num -eq 2 ]; then
break
fi
done

for i in $(seq 1 500); do

echo "index $i"
wpa_cli -i wlan0 roam 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e3
sleep 5
wpa_cli -i wlan0 roam 90:fb:5d:94:8b:e2
sleep 5

done

---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c | 11 ++++++++---
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h | 1 +
drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c
index 4ae5e4715a9c..83f4f941b890 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mac80211.c
@@ -1595,11 +1595,16 @@ mt76_sta_add(struct mt76_phy *phy, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
mtxq->wcid = wcid->idx;
}

- ewma_signal_init(&wcid->rssi);
- rcu_assign_pointer(dev->wcid[wcid->idx], wcid);
+ if (!test_bit(MT_WCID_FLAG_DRV_PUBLISH, &wcid->flags)) {
+ ewma_signal_init(&wcid->rssi);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(dev->wcid[wcid->idx], wcid);
+ mt76_wcid_init(wcid, phy->band_idx);
+ } else {
+ wcid->phy_idx = phy->band_idx;
+ }
+
phy->num_sta++;

- mt76_wcid_init(wcid, phy->band_idx);
out:
mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
index 527bef97e122..8bfce686bff7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt76.h
@@ -361,6 +361,7 @@ enum mt76_wcid_flags {
MT_WCID_FLAG_PS,
MT_WCID_FLAG_4ADDR,
MT_WCID_FLAG_HDR_TRANS,
+ MT_WCID_FLAG_DRV_PUBLISH,
};

#define MT76_N_WCIDS 1088
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
index 73d3722739d0..35b5c718475c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt76/mt7925/main.c
@@ -1102,6 +1102,9 @@ int mt7925_mac_sta_add(struct mt76_dev *mdev, struct ieee80211_vif *vif,
&msta->deflink);
}

+ if (!err)
+ set_bit(MT_WCID_FLAG_DRV_PUBLISH, &msta->deflink.wcid.flags);
+
return err;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mt7925_mac_sta_add);
--
2.53.0