FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7): commit: 83db2c9ebd071566d3b45e4860b9803dfc36d1ca ("[PATCH 06/11] cfg80211: don't skip multi-bssid index element") url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Luca-Coelho/mac80211-Increase-MAX_MSG_LEN/20190316-083719 base: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next.git master in testcase: hwsim with following parameters: group: hwsim-12 on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -smp 2 -m 4G caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace): 2019-03-25 02:31:59 ./run-tests.py scan_multi_bssid_check_ie DEV: wlan0: 02:00:00:00:00:00 DEV: wlan1: 02:00:00:00:01:00 DEV: wlan2: 02:00:00:00:02:00 APDEV: wlan3 APDEV: wlan4 START scan_multi_bssid_check_ie 1/1 Test: Scan and check if nontransmitting BSS inherits IE from transmitting BSS Starting AP wlan3 trans_bss beacon_ie: [0, 1, 3, 5, 71, 42, 45, 221, 50, 59, 61, 127] nontrans_bss1 beacon_ie: [0, 1, 3, 5, 42, 45, 221, 50, 85, 59, 61, 127] check IE failed Traceback (most recent call last): File "./run-tests.py", line 466, in main t(dev, apdev) File "/lkp/benchmarks/hwsim/tests/hwsim/test_scan.py", line 1703, in test_scan_multi_bssid_check_ie raise Exception("check IE failed") Exception: check IE failed FAIL scan_multi_bssid_check_ie 0.671182 2019-03-25 02:32:01.152626 passed 0 test case(s) skipped 0 test case(s) failed tests: scan_multi_bssid_check_ie To reproduce: # build kernel cd linux cp config-5.0.0-rc7-02371-g83db2c9 .config make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 prepare make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 modules_prepare make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash make HOSTCC=gcc-7 CC=gcc-7 ARCH=x86_64 bzImage git clone https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests.git cd lkp-tests bin/lkp qemu -k job-script # job-script is attached in this email Thanks, Rong Chen