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

[Nicolas Escande]

On Tue May 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM CEST, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
> Hi Nicolas
>
> On 5/4/2025 6:06 PM, Nicolas Escande wrote:
>> On Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM CET, Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Any news on this ?
>> I would hate for this to sink into oblivion once again given how hard this
>> affects end users when it does hit.
>
> We are working on a driver change w/o reverting the commit, we'll share
> the patch once complete.
>
> Vasanth

Hello,

I might be mistaken but I did not see anything posted for that yet, right ?

Thanks