When connect to MLO AP with more than one link, and the assoc response of AP is not success, then cfg80211_unhold_bss() is not called for all the links' cfg80211_bss except the primary link which means the link used by the latest successful association request. Thus the hold value of the cfg80211_bss is not reset to 0 after the assoc fail, and then the __cfg80211_unlink_bss() will not be called for the cfg80211_bss by __cfg80211_bss_expire(). Then the AP always looks exist even the AP is shutdown or reconfigured to another type, then it will lead error while connecting it again. The detail info are as below. When connect with muti-links AP, cfg80211_hold_bss() is called by cfg80211_mlme_assoc() for each cfg80211_bss of all the links. When assoc response from AP is not success(such as status_code==1), the ieee80211_link_data of non-primary link(sdata->link[link_id]) is NULL because ieee80211_assoc_success()->ieee80211_vif_update_links() is not called for the links. Then struct cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp resp in cfg80211_rx_assoc_resp() and struct cfg80211_connect_resp_params cr in __cfg80211_connect_result() will only have the data of the primary link, and finally function cfg80211_connect_result_release_bsses() only call cfg80211_unhold_bss() for the primary link. Then cfg80211_bss of the other links will never free because its hold is always > 0 now. Hence assign value for the bss and status from assoc_data since it is valid for this case. Also assign value of addr from assoc_data when the link is NULL because the addrs of assoc_data and link both represent the local link addr and they are same value for success connection. It is 100% ratio to reproduce the issue with this change. Add "mgmt->u.assoc_resp.status_code = 1" in ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(). Fixes: 81151ce462e5 ("wifi: mac80211: support MLO authentication/association with one link") Signed-off-by: Wen Gong <quic_wgong@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mac80211/mlme.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/mac80211/mlme.c b/net/mac80211/mlme.c index f93eb38ae0b8..370b2cd0cc6d 100644 --- a/net/mac80211/mlme.c +++ b/net/mac80211/mlme.c @@ -5429,17 +5429,22 @@ static void ieee80211_rx_mgmt_assoc_resp(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata, for (link_id = 0; link_id < IEEE80211_MLD_MAX_NUM_LINKS; link_id++) { struct ieee80211_link_data *link; - link = sdata_dereference(sdata->link[link_id], sdata); - if (!link) - continue; - if (!assoc_data->link[link_id].bss) continue; resp.links[link_id].bss = assoc_data->link[link_id].bss; - resp.links[link_id].addr = link->conf->addr; resp.links[link_id].status = assoc_data->link[link_id].status; + link = sdata_dereference(sdata->link[link_id], sdata); + + if (!link) { + /* use the addr of assoc_data link which is set in ieee80211_mgd_assoc() */ + resp.links[link_id].addr = assoc_data->link[link_id].addr; + continue; + } + + resp.links[link_id].addr = link->conf->addr; + /* get uapsd queues configuration - same for all links */ resp.uapsd_queues = 0; for (ac = 0; ac < IEEE80211_NUM_ACS; ac++) base-commit: 3f257461ab0ab19806bae2bfde4c3cd88dbf050e -- 2.40.1