Fwd: Re: hostapd Kernel Crashes with IOS

Fwd: Re: hostapd Kernel Crashes with IOS

[Arend van Spriel]

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--- Doorgestuurd bericht ---
Van: Arend van Spriel arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com
Datum: 25 september 2025 07:51:25
Onderwerp: Re: hostapd Kernel Crashes with IOS
Aan: Chris Spargo chris@streetlogic.pro, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, 
brcm80211@lists.linux.dev, brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
CC: Jonah Finkelstein jonah@streetlogic.pro, Parker Borneman 
parker@streetlogic.pro

> Hi Chris,
>
> No problem. The null-deref seems straightforward enough so determining the 
> issue should not be difficult.
>
> One thing that I noticed in the log is:
>
> hostapd[1149]: RX_ACTION category 10 action 6 sa 62:a7:67:fb:82:3e da 
> dc:a6:32:7b:12:1c len 28 freq 2462
> Sep 02 17:23:08 raspi hostapd[1149]: Ignore BSS Transition Management Query 
> from 62:a7:67:fb:82:3e since BSS Transition Management is disabled
> Sep 02 17:23:09 raspi dnsmasq-dhcp[1143]: DHCPREQUEST(wlan0) 
> 192.168.237.234 62:a7:67:fb:82:3e
> Sep 02 17:23:09 raspi dnsmasq-dhcp[1143]: DHCPACK(wlan0) 192.168.237.234 
> *62:a7:67:fb:82:3e Pixel-7*
> Sep 02 17:23:18 raspi hostapd[1149]: nl80211: Event message available
> Sep 02 17:23:18 raspi hostapd[1149]: nl80211: Drv Event 20 
> (NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION) received for wlan0
>
> So the claim that the issue is observed with iOS device and not with Pixel7 
> seems incorrect.
>
> Regards,
> Arend

Re: hostapd Kernel Crashes with IOS

[Arend van Spriel]

On 9/25/2025 3:36 PM, Chris Spargo wrote:
> It appears that user was also testing with the Pixel7 (mentioned in the 
> ticket).
> 
> Our experience has been both the little circled information icon on 
> iphone triggers this, as well as simply joining the network then leaving 
> it.  It’s been a bit of a diagnostic frenzy here yesterday, so I need to 
> slow down and understand if those are both the same failure, or 
> different overruns that cause fundamentally the same crash.
> 
> I will pull together cleaner examples of both crashes.  Should I attach 
> them to the github ticket or forward directly here?

Either way works for me although I have a slight preference for using 
the mailing lists.

Regards,
Arend