Fwd: Pixel6 was not able to connect due to phone indicates support for SAE H2E, but did not use it

[Sean Li]

Hi all and Jouni,
We have a tri-band 6G AP product running hostapd with sae_pwe as 2.
We noticed Android Pixel6 was failed to make successful connection due
to warning "SAE: 0c:c4:13:14:16:93 indicates support for SAE H2E, but
did not use it."
>From sniffer capture, Pixel6 has status code 0 in AUTH COMMIT message,
H2E bit set in (Re)Assoc Req and hostapd returned
WLAN_STATUS_UNSPECIFIED_FAILURE in (Re)Assoc Resp.

Can we get more context on why hostapd instrument the check below?
Is there any spec stating the requirement below?

> Author: Jouni Malinen <jouni at codeaurora.org>
> Date:   Fri Oct 18 12:38:11 2019 +0300
>
>     SAE: Verify that STA negotiated H2E if it claims to support it
>
>     If a STA indicates support for SAE H2E in RSNXE and H2E is enabled in
>     the AP configuration, require H2E to be used.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni at codeaurora.org>



Regards,
Sean