wifi: rtw89: Correct data type for scan index to avoid infinite loop
A kernel soft lockup was observed during Wi-Fi scanning on the 6GHz band.
The CPU becomes stuck in rtw89_hw_scan_add_chan_ax for over 20 seconds,
leading to a system panic.
RIP points to 0f b6 c3 (movzbl %bl, %eax), which zero-extends
the low 8 bits of RBX into RAX.
RBX (the counter i) has reached a huge value: 0x137466a1.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u16:4:6124]
Workqueue: events_unbound cfg80211_wiphy_work [cfg80211]
RIP: 0010:rtw89_hw_scan_add_chan_ax+0xb3/0x6e0 [rtw89_core]
Code: a0 48 89 45 a8 44 89 6d 9c 44 89 75 98 eb 29 66 66 2e 0f 1f
84 00 00 00 00 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 83 c3 01
<0f> b6 c3 41 3b 44 24 74 0f 83 0b 02 00 00 0f b6 c3 48 8d 14 80 49
RSP: 0018:
ffffcb48cbaa39f8 EFLAGS:
00000202
RAX:
0000000000000005 RBX:
00000000137466a1 RCX:
0000000000000000
RDX:
ffff89ffc9d851a8 RSI:
0000000000004f0d RDI:
0000000096af0130
RBP:
ffffcb48cbaa3a60 R08:
0000000000000000 R09:
ffff8a00b7502080
R10:
ffff8a00b75ff600 R11:
0000000000000000 R12:
ffff89ffc7553870
R13:
ffff8a00b7ac8f19 R14:
ffff8a00b75020d8 R15:
ffff89ffc3d54d80
FS:
0000000000000000(0000) GS:
ffff8a014f962000(0000)
knlGS:
0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:
0000000080050033
CR2:
00007558d7f9f4c4 CR3:
0000000178040001 CR4:
00000000001706f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rtw89_hw_scan_prep_chan_list_ax+0x8a/0x400 [rtw89_core]
rtw89_hw_scan_start+0x546/0x8a0 [rtw89_core]
? rtw89_fw_h2c_default_cmac_tbl+0x13c/0x1f0 [rtw89_core]
rtw89_ops_hw_scan+0xae/0x120 [rtw89_core]
drv_hw_scan+0xbb/0x180 [mac80211]
__ieee80211_start_scan+0x2fc/0x750 [mac80211]
ieee80211_request_scan+0xe/0x20 [mac80211]
ieee80211_scan+0x123/0x190 [mac80211]
rdev_scan+0x40/0x110 [cfg80211]
cfg80211_scan_6ghz+0x5a1/0xa30 [cfg80211]
By objdump with source:
for (i = 0; i < req->n_6ghz_params; i++) {
5fbc0: 83 c3 01 add $0x1,%ebx --> i++
5fbc3: 0f b6 c3 movzbl %bl,%eax --> get counter
fbc6: 41 3b 44 24 74 cmp 0x74(%r12),%eax
* RBX:
00000000137466a1 -> %bl = a1 -> EAX =
000000a1 (161)
Fixes: c6aa9a9c4725 ("wifi: rtw89: add RNR support for 6 GHz scan")
Signed-off-by: Shin-Yi Lin <isaiah@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260420034051.17666-7-pkshih@realtek.com