[PATCH] Revert "ath11k: clear the keys properly via DISABLE_KEY"

Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan quic_vthiagar at quicinc.com
Sat Jan 18 02:29:24 PST 2025


Hi Nicolas,

On 1/18/2025 12:44 AM, Nicolas Escande wrote:
> This reverts commit 436a4e88659842a7cf634d7cc088c8f2cc94ebf5.
> 
> This as been reported by multiple people [0] that with this commit,
> broadcast packets were not being delivered after GTK exchange.
> Qualcomm seems to have a similar patch [1] confirming the issue.
> 

This will re-open https://www.spinics.net/lists/hostap/msg08921.html
reported by Sven. The recommended ath firmware ABI during GTK re-keying
is SET_KEY instead of current DEL_KEY followed by SET_KEY. We are looking
at other options like some marking by mac80211 for the driver to be able
to identify if the received DEL_KEY is for re-keying. Also I'm curious
if roaming between secure and non-secure mode is a critical use case.
If not, we can probably go ahead with this revert as temporary WAR,
@Sven?

Vasanth



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