number of peers exceeded after a short time

[Janusz Dziedzic]

On 6 January 2015 at 21:30, Conrad Kostecki <ck at conrad-kostecki.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am using hostapd 2.3 with 2x ath10k (WLE900VX, FW 10.2). Kernel is 3.18.0.
> Four SSIDs are being broadcasted. Two directly from ath10k and another two via a vif, based on the real ath10k-interfaces.
> Two SSIDs are using WPA2 and two other are using WPA2-Enterprise.
>
> This problem started for me since upgrading vom Kernel 3.17.x (FW 10.1) to Kernel 3.18.0 (FW 10.2). When I downgrade, it happens much less..
>
> After a very short time, about 5-15 minutes, my dmesg is beeing logged full with those messages:
> [2055815.205855] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: number of peers exceeded: peers number 127 (max peers 127)
> [2055818.796016] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: number of peers exceeded: peers number 127 (max peers 127)
> [2055822.392301] ath10k_pci 0000:0c:00.0: number of peers exceeded: peers number 127 (max peers 127)
> [...]
>
> How is this possible? This is my private home router. I've only a few wifi devices.
> I've noticed, that this problem mainly happens, when my Nokia Lumia 930 tries to connect with my WPA2-Enterprise network.
>
> Is this a ath10k problem, which is not correctly processing the peers or hostapd?

I suspect Michal already fix this,
ath10k: fix station count enforcement

Best use kernel from ath10k github.

BR
Janusz