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The firmware was observed to corrupt its heap over time due to > this omission, leading to firmware trap (data abort in heap allocator). > > Parse the beacon IEs on start_ap() and set the extsae_pwe iovar > accordingly: 2 when the RSNX IE advertises H2E, 1 when an H2E-only > membership selector is present, 0 otherwise. This matches the behaviour > of the upstream/vendor driver and only applies to SAE-capable APs when > external SAE is supported. This makes sense, but may I ask what device do you have? Suspect it is a Cypress/Infineon chip. I could not find the iovar in our (Broadcom bca) code base so I suspect it is vendor specific. Regards, Arend