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Description of problem: Since kernel 7.1.x my WiFi (Realtek RTL8852BE, rtw89_8852be) stalls silently every few minutes. The radio link stays completely healthy throughout -- received frames are counted by mac80211 but never delivered to the network stack. During a stall: - the interface stays associated, signal unchanged (~-62 dBm) - "tx failed" and "tx retries" stay at 0: the AP ACKs every frame we send - "beacon loss" stays at 0 - the station's "rx packets" counter keeps increasing (~23 frames/s) - but almost nothing reaches the IP stack -- no ping, no traffic at all - the kernel logs NOTHING: no deauth, no disassoc, no firmware error - after 1-7 minutes it recovers on its own, WITHOUT re-association, and the entire backlog is delivered in a single burst Quantified over one 54-second stall, comparing the mac80211 station counter against the napi_gro_receive tracepoint: frames received and counted from the AP : ~1230 frames delivered to the network stack : ~211 frames withheld : ~1000 delivered in one interval on recovery : +5070 Everything that DOES get through during the stall is broadcast/multicast only: ARP (0x0806), AVM vendor protocols (0x8912, 0x88e1), IPv6 multicast (0x86dd) -- exactly the traffic that bypasses Block-Ack reordering. SUSPECTED COMMIT: bda294ed0ed0 ("wifi: rtw89: Drop malformed AMPDU frames with abnormal PN") Reverting this commit on top of v7.1 appears to fix the problem: the stalls are gone. The mechanism fits every observation -- dropping a frame inside an A-MPDU leaves a hole in the sequence numbers, the RX reorder buffer waits for something that never arrives, everything behind it piles up, and it is only flushed when a timeout eventually fires. Version-Release number of selected component: Bad: kernel-7.1.3-200.fc44.x86_64, and v7.1 vanilla (self-built) Good: kernel-7.0.14-201.fc44.x86_64 Fixed by: v7.1 with bda294ed0ed0 reverted Note: "git log v7.1..v7.1.3 -- net/mac80211/ drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/" is EMPTY, so the regression entered with the v7.1 merge window, not via a stable patch. Hardware: 04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network Controller [10ec:b852] Driver: rtw89_8852be (chip info CID: 0, CV: 1, AID: 0, ACV: 1, RFE: 1) Firmware: 0.29.29.18 (9e3d777f) AP: FRITZ!Box 4040, 5 GHz, channel 36 (5180 MHz), VHT80, non-DFS How reproducible: Every few minutes under normal use. Never on 7.0.14, tested over several full working days. Confirmed A/B/A. I could NOT find a way to trigger it on demand -- tearing down the RX Block-Ack sessions via mac80211 debugfs looked promising at first but produced no stall in 10 controlled attempts. Because of that I could not bisect; the suspect was found by reading the v7.0..v7.1 commits touching the RX/AMPDU path and doing a targeted revert test. Actual results (monitoring script, 5 s interval; counters from "iw station dump", router = ping to the AP): 15:59:30 sig=-63 txp=70540 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=266600 bl=0 router=OK 15:59:35 sig=-62 txp=70824 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=267564 bl=0 router=FAIL <- stall 16:02:00 sig=-63 txp=71396 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=270838 bl=0 router=FAIL 16:06:42 sig=-61 txp=72752 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=277203 bl=0 router=FAIL 16:06:48 sig=-64 txp=72864 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=277369 bl=0 router=OK <- recovers 16:06:53 sig=-61 txp=74304 txr=0 txf=0 rxp=280463 bl=0 router=OK <- +3094 burst Note txf=0 and bl=0 throughout, and rxp climbing steadily during the stall. dmesg over this entire window contains ZERO wireless-related entries. Additional info: - WiFi powersave disabled (NetworkManager wifi.powersave=2, confirmed via iw). - /etc/modprobe.d/rtw89.conf sets: options rtw89_pci disable_clkreq=y disable_aspm_l1=y disable_aspm_l1ss=y options rtw89_core disable_ps_mode=y All confirmed active via /sys/module/*/parameters/. The stall STILL occurs, so the known disable_aspm_l1 workaround does NOT help here. - Signal is constant across the stall; not a range, interference or DFS issue. - The Fedora kernel is built without CONFIG_RTW89_DEBUGMSG / CONFIG_RTW89_DEBUGFS, so no driver-level trace is available. - A regression with the same version boundary was reported against the CachyOS kernel: https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos/issues/921 There, disable_aspm_l1 resolved it; here it does not. Reproducible: Always
FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9 (kernel-7.1.4-200.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9
FEDORA-2026-66c7770601 (kernel-7.1.4-100.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-66c7770601
FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-66c7770601 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-66c7770601` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-66c7770601 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2026-4affa21ca9 (kernel-7.1.4-200.fc44) has been pushed to the Fedora 44 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2026-66c7770601 (kernel-7.1.4-100.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.