Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:42718 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757272Ab0LBHQJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Dec 2010 02:16:09 -0500 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so7862065wyb.19 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:16:08 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4CF73249.3040203@candelatech.com> References: <1291201205-1541-1-git-send-email-senthilkumar@atheros.com> <4CF6A8FD.6020508@candelatech.com> <4CF73249.3040203@candelatech.com> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:46:08 +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 11:14 AM, Ben Greear wrote: > On 12/01/2010 09:09 PM, Mohammed Shafi wrote: >> >> 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 > > Try this script, or something like it: > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg60126.html > > Edit 'max' to create a small number of STA interfaces or you will probably > have > worse issues than them just not associating! > > You have to enable the nohwcrypt module option. > > Let me know if that doesn't work and I can probably put together something > more specific. thanks Ben. > > Thanks, > Ben > > -- > Ben Greear > Candela Technologies Inc ?http://www.candelatech.com >