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

["Nicolas Escande" <nico.escande@gmail.com>]

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.

Thanks,