Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:65221 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751262Ab0LBFJW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:09:22 -0500 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so7780605wyb.19 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:09:21 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CF6A8FD.6020508@candelatech.com> References: <1291201205-1541-1-git-send-email-senthilkumar@atheros.com> <4CF6A8FD.6020508@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:39:19 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ath9k: Fix STA disconnect issue due to received MIC failed bcast frames From: Mohammed Shafi To: Ben Greear Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 12/01/2010 03:00 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian wrote: >> >> AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying >> this status for MIC failed frames is buggy. >> >> Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to >> supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA. >> >> Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix. > > Please do not apply this yet. ?As far as I can tell, either > of these patches breaks multiple VIF scenarios. ?I'm not > sure exactly why, but I had to revert this to get any > of my interfaces to associate. Ben can you please give some more information(or just point out some link) regarding your test case,I can try it out. thanks, shafi > > I'm using software encryption in case that matters. > > Senthil: ?Any chance you could test with a few VIFS to > see if you see the same problem? > > Here is a dmesg snippet from wireless-testing with the v1 reverted > and v2 applied: > > sta9: authenticate with 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (try 1) > sta9: authenticated > sta9: associate with 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (try 1) > sta9: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (capab=0x431 status=1 aid=0) > sta9: 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 denied association (code=1) > sta9: deauthenticating from 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 by local choice (reason=3) > ieee80211 wiphy0: device now idle > ieee80211 wiphy0: device no longer idle - scanning > ieee80211 wiphy0: device now idle > ieee80211 wiphy0: device no longer idle - working > sta10: authenticate with 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (try 1) > sta10: authenticated > sta10: associate with 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (try 1) > sta10: RX AssocResp from 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 (capab=0x431 status=1 aid=0) > sta10: 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 denied association (code=1) > sta10: deauthenticating from 00:14:d1:c6:d2:54 by local choice (reason=3) > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear > Candela Technologies Inc ?http://www.candelatech.com > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at ?http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >