This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled wifi: mac80211: apply mcast rate only if interface is up to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: wifi-mac80211-apply-mcast-rate-only-if-interface-is-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9cef937efa13fc4ace528ccbe25e2993dc3b9ac7 Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 15 13:34:10 2024 +0200 wifi: mac80211: apply mcast rate only if interface is up [ Upstream commit 02c665f048a439c0d58cc45334c94634bd7c18e6 ] If the interface isn't enabled, don't apply multicast rate changes immediately. Reported-by: syzbot+de87c09cc7b964ea2e23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://msgid.link/20240515133410.d6cffe5756cc.I47b624a317e62bdb4609ff7fa79403c0c444d32d@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/mac80211/cfg.c b/net/mac80211/cfg.c index 505f1d6ccd16c..f3fc0be9d8eac 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/cfg.c +++ b/net/mac80211/cfg.c @@ -2953,8 +2953,9 @@ static int ieee80211_set_mcast_rate(struct wiphy *wiphy, struct net_device *dev, memcpy(sdata->vif.bss_conf.mcast_rate, rate, sizeof(int) * NUM_NL80211_BANDS); - ieee80211_link_info_change_notify(sdata, &sdata->deflink, - BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE); + if (ieee80211_sdata_running(sdata)) + ieee80211_link_info_change_notify(sdata, &sdata->deflink, + BSS_CHANGED_MCAST_RATE); return 0; }