Hari Chandrakanthan <quic_haric@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >From 'IEEE Std 802.11-2020 section 11.3.4.1': > If STA A in an infrastructure BSS receives a Class 2 or Class 3 frame > from STA B that is not authenticated with STA A > (i.e., the state for STA B is State 1), STA A shall discard the frame. > If the frame has an individual address in the Address 1 field, > the MLME of STA A shall send a Deauthentication frame to STA B. > > When data frames from unassociated stations are received by an AP, > the AP is supposed to send a deauthentication/disassociation frame with > reason code "Class 2 frame received from nonauthenticated STA" or > "Class 3 frame received from nonassociated STA". > > But ath12k AP doesn't send deauthentication/disassociation frames, > when it receives data frames from unassociated stations. > > The ath12k driver drops the data frames from unassociated > station and the upper layer(mac80211/hostapd) is not aware of such event. > Hence deauthentication/disassociation frame is not sent to that > particular station by the AP. > > To address this issue, allow the data frames from the > unassociated stations to reach mac80211 so that mac80211 can send > NL80211_CMD_UNEXPECTED_FRAME event to userspace(hostapd) and hostapd > upon receiving the event will send the deauthentication/disassociation > frame with proper reason code. > > The data frame from unassociated stations gets dropped in mac80211. > > Tested-on: QCN9274 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.WBE.1.0-02903-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1 > > Signed-off-by: Hari Chandrakanthan <quic_haric@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks. 1e55298a6394 wifi: ath12k: do not drop data frames from unassociated stations -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/1689749074-14676-1-git-send-email-quic_haric@xxxxxxxxxxx/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
