On Saturday 16 May 2020 12:23:01 Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 11:32:55PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 11:40 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > I have configured hostapd to provide multiple SSIDs at one phy > > > interface. And on every hostapd startup I see in hostapd logs > > > following errors: > > > > > > May 13 09:20:30 turris hostapd: nl80211: Frame command failed: ret=-22 (Invalid argument) (freq=0 wait=0) > > > > It's not *really* invalid, at least per spec. It's trying to send a > > broadcast deauth frame for the new network it's about to start up. > > > > But the kernel doesn't initialize all the context and everything until > > it actually starts up, so it cannot do that yet and we get this result. > > > > I believe it's been this way for many years, and the only side effect is > > that print in the log ... > > That's only one of these frames and not the particular one in this log. > The ones here a Probe Response frames that were attempted to be sent > during ACS channel survey since the driver managed to deliver Probe > Request frames to hostapd for processing. I'm not completely sure how > those frames could have passed the channel number validation check > against DS parameters when the local configuration is still > uninitialized (comparison against 0), but anyway, it looks like > something happened here to allow that or the DS parameters was not used > on the particular band. Anyway, I was able to reproduce this with > mac80211_hwsim as well. > > I'll make hostapd drop these Management frames that might be received > during an ACS (or any other setup step before beaconing is started) to > get rid of these attempts to send a Probe Response frame too early. I'll > also move that broadcast Deauthentication frame so that it actually goes > out with drivers using nl80211. Thank you for looking at it. Could you send a link to git commit / patch? I can try it on Turris MOX to check if problem is fixedI can try it on Turris MOX to check if problem is fixed. _______________________________________________ Hostap mailing list Hostap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/hostap
