[PATCH ath-current v2] wifi: ath10k: Fix connection after GTK rekeying
Loic Poulain
loic.poulain at oss.qualcomm.com
Tue Sep 2 07:32:25 PDT 2025
It appears that not all hardware/firmware implementations support
group key deletion correctly, which can lead to connection hangs
and deauthentication following GTK rekeying (delete and install).
To avoid this issue, instead of attempting to delete the key using
the special WMI_CIPHER_NONE value, we now replace the key with an
invalid (random) value.
This behavior has been observed with WCN39xx chipsets.
Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 WLAN.HL.3.3.7.c2-00931-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1
Reported-by: "Alexey Klimov" <alexey.klimov at linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/DAWJQ2NIKY28.1XOG35E4A682G@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Loic Poulain <loic.poulain at oss.qualcomm.com>
---
v2: use random value instead of predictable zero value for key
Add Tested-on tag
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
index 24dd794e31ea..154ac7a70982 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/mac.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/acpi.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/bitfield.h>
+#include <linux/random.h>
#include "hif.h"
#include "core.h"
@@ -290,8 +291,15 @@ static int ath10k_send_key(struct ath10k_vif *arvif,
key->flags |= IEEE80211_KEY_FLAG_GENERATE_IV;
if (cmd == DISABLE_KEY) {
- arg.key_cipher = ar->wmi_key_cipher[WMI_CIPHER_NONE];
- arg.key_data = NULL;
+ if (flags & WMI_KEY_GROUP) {
+ /* Not all hardware handles group-key deletion operation
+ * correctly. Replace the key with a junk value to invalidate it.
+ */
+ get_random_bytes(key->key, key->keylen);
+ } else {
+ arg.key_cipher = ar->wmi_key_cipher[WMI_CIPHER_NONE];
+ arg.key_data = NULL;
+ }
}
return ath10k_wmi_vdev_install_key(arvif->ar, &arg);
--
2.34.1
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