failed to insert STA entry for the AP (error -2)

[Kalle Valo]

Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> writes:

> I'm seeing this fun churn of warns when trying to connect to my AP
> with a brand new Thinkpad T14s Gen3 AMD that I'm trying to install
> Debian on.
>
> The kernel is linux-image-6.0.0-5-amd64 from Debian unstable, which is
> identical to the latest 6.0-stable for ath11k.
>
> [ 280.585881] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem
> 0x98000000-0x981fffff 64bit]
> [  280.586362] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: MSI vectors: 32
> [  280.586368] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: wcn6855 hw2.1
> [  280.741846] mhi mhi0: Requested to power ON
> [  280.741860] mhi mhi0: Power on setup success
> [ 280.743578] mhi mhi0: firmware: direct-loading firmware
> ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/amss.bin
> [  280.834744] mhi mhi0: Wait for device to enter SBL or Mission mode
> [ 281.468934] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: chip_id 0x12 chip_family 0xb
> board_id 0xff soc_id 0x400c1211
> [ 281.468944] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: fw_version 0x11090c35
> fw_build_timestamp 2022-04-18 20:23 fw_build_id
> WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.9
> [ 281.469461] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/board-2.bin
> [ 281.469544] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/regdb.bin
> [ 281.479138] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/board-2.bin
> [ 281.510539] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: firmware: direct-loading
> firmware ath11k/WCN6855/hw2.1/m3.bin
> [  281.802394] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0 wlp1s0: renamed from wlan0
> [  341.715380] wlp1s0: authenticate with 0c:70:4a:89:bc:64
> [  341.730641] wlp1s0: Invalid HE elem, Disable HE
> [  341.769475] ath11k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to setup rx defrag context

Haven't seen this before either. Really unfortunate that the warning
message message is not printing the error value (missed that during
review), but I suspect the error is coming from crypto_alloc_shash()
call:

int ath11k_peer_rx_frag_setup(struct ath11k *ar, const u8 *peer_mac, int vdev_id)
{
	struct ath11k_base *ab = ar->ab;
	struct crypto_shash *tfm;
	struct ath11k_peer *peer;
	struct dp_rx_tid *rx_tid;
	int i;

	tfm = crypto_alloc_shash("michael_mic", 0, 0);
	if (IS_ERR(tfm))
		return PTR_ERR(tfm);

Any chance you could check that? Also please check that
CONFIG_CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC is enabled (it should be as CONFIG_ATH11K
depends on it).

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches