[PATCH v2 0/5] PR: resource leak fixes and improvements

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Sun Aug 2 01:42:02 PDT 2026


On Fri, Jul 31, 2026 at 03:22:22PM +0530, Peddolla Harshavardhan Reddy wrote:
> The first two patches improve PASN robustness for out-of-band ranging
> triggers: a new return value distinguishes an unacked auth frame 1 from
> other TX status cases, and the PR initiator uses this to retransmit the
> frame after each unacked TX status until the responder comes on channel
> or the session times out.

Thanks, applied those two patches.

> The remaining three patches add caller control over channel selection.
> A preferred_freq field is added to pr_pasn_ranging_params and wired
> through to the ctrl interface PR_PASN_START command. When set, the
> op_class with the widest bandwidth whose channel range covers the
> preferred frequency is selected from the common channel set, falling
> back to automatic selection if no match is found. Among op classes with
> equal bandwidth, a higher band is preferred as a tiebreaker (6 GHz >
> 5 GHz > 2.4 GHz).

These have open comments/dependencies.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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