Re: [PATCH ath-next] wifi: ath12k: allow beacon protection keys to be installed in hardware

Karthikeyan Kathirvel
2025-06-06T13:22:16Z

On 6/5/2025 2:08 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 6/4/2025 1:59 AM, Karthikeyan Kathirvel wrote:
>> On 5/9/2025 9:37 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>>> Will you be spinning a v2? Note the dependent mac80211 change has merged.
>> Yes Jeff, we've identified and confirmed a firmware bug that gets
>> triggered during IGTK key installation, which leads to corruption of the
>> GTK keys in firmware. To work around this, I’ll send a new version where
>> IGTK uses software crypto. Once the firmware bug is resolved upstream,
>> we can re-enable hardware offload for IGTK.
>
> Note that then means firmware must advertise that the correct support is
> present so that the host knows whether or not it can enable the offload.
>
> /jeff

Noted.