KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE stopcode BSOD when my travel laptop with Arch Linux tries to connect to my hotspot (Windows 11)

Question

I've managed to get my hotspot from my Ethernet cable connection up and running, and my phone connects to it just fine. I need that hotspot because my dormitory wifi is really weak in my room and thus isn't stable. However, when I try to connect my Arch Linux laptop to my hotspot on Windows 11, it instantly causes BSOD with stopcode "KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE".

BSODs back in Windows XP days used to be much more informative, and if you were quick enough (or the PC was slow enough) for you to snap a picture of the screen with your camera, you'd be able to analyze exactly in which part of the memory the error happened, which triggered the bugcheck. That's no longer possible, where you have to use a vague stopcode and a MEMORY.DMP file that contains the dump of the memory produced by the bugcheck procedure.

My MEMORY.DMP file is 2.5 GB big, and I suppose it's not even complete (that may be because I've got 16 GB RAM). I'm not sure if bugcheck only dumps the portion of the memory where an error occured, but 2.5 GB seems a little bit too small for a memory dump to something that supposedly was in the kernel. What I can however suspect is that Wi-Fi drivers might be at fault, or perhaps Windows modules for managing Wi-Fi hotspot.

Anyway, I'm sending you the MEMORY.DMP file, hopefully it shall contain everything necessary to debug it.

MEMORY.DMP - I had to upload it to my school Sharepoint OneDrive, because my personal is too full to take that large file into account.

Solving this crash and having it fixed would be really nice, because I live in a dormitory, and this hotspot is visible in the vicinity, and I've had another student to snoop around and crack my hotspot password, and having this bug is a critical vulnerability for a DoS (Denial of Service) attack, where an attacker can use a Linux distribution that causes the BSOD to essentially crash my laptop randomly when it's in use.

Additional info that might be useful:

Windows 11 build: 27823.1000 (Insider Preview, Dev Canary channel)

RAM: 16GB DDR4

This is the picture of the BSOD (in my case, the screen is green, because I'm using an Insider Preview - GSOD).

The percentage didn't move at all, it stayed at 0% the whole time, it was like 5 minutes. I'm not waiting hours for it to move, I need to use the PC.

Answer 1

You could try the drivers from here if you haven't already.

Intel® Wireless-AC 9560

Answer 2

Thanks makes sense now,

To connect your Arch computer is it using wireless or BlueTooth?

To connect, I take it you are using nmcli dev wifi connect "NetworkName" password "Password" on Arch's terminal

What make and model is the W11 computer please?

Answer 3

Wireless. And not exactly terminal, I've got KDE Plasma installed, which comes with Network Manager GUI, so I'm connecting with that. It's more convenient than terminal access.

Answer 4

Can you, hotspot your phone to connect to your Arch computer to make sure that works? Trying to figure out if it's Windows or your Arch computer on a forum is difficult.

Still need the make and model of your Windows computer?

Answer 5

As a matter of fact, I can, and I've done so previously, no issue. My Arch Linux laptop can connect to my phone hotspot just fine, it doesn't crash it or anything, it just works. Only my Windows 11 machine is affected.

Make and model: Acer Nitro 5, Obsidian Black, Model: AN515-52, bought in 2018.

Physical RAM: 16GB DDR4

Storage: M.2 NVMe 1GB SSD + 2.5in SATA 2GB SSD (system disk + additional storage)

CPU: Intel i5-8300H (8th gen)

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 630 + NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (integrated + dedicated)

Wi-Fi module: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz