On Wed, 2022-04-27 at 23:53 +0530, Manikanta Pubbisetty wrote: > Currently MBSSID parameters in struct ieee80211_bss_conf > are not reset upon connection. This could be problematic > with some drivers in a scenario where the device first > connects to a non-transmit BSS and then connects to a > transmit BSS of a Multi BSS AP. The MBSSID parameters > which are set after connecting to a non-transmit BSS will > not be reset and the same parameters will be passed on to > the driver during the subsequent connection to a transmit > BSS of a Multi BSS AP. > > For example, firmware running on the ath11k device uses the > Multi BSS data for tracking the beacon of a non-transmit BSS > and reports the driver when there is a beacon miss. If we do > not reset the MBSSID parameters during the subsequent > connection to a transmit BSS, then the driver would have > wrong MBSSID data and FW would be looking for an incorrect > BSSID in the MBSSID beacon of a Multi BSS AP and reports > beacon loss leading to an unstable connection. > > Reset the MBSSID parameters upon every connection to solve this > problem. Oops. Please add (or at least provide) a Fixes line though. johannes
