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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] ath9k: Fix STA disconnect issue due to received MIC failed bcast frames

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On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 11:58:53AM -0800, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 03:00 AM, Senthil Balasubramanian wrote:
> >AR_RxKeyIdxValid will not be set for bcast/mcast frames and so relying
> >this status for MIC failed frames is buggy.
> >
> >Due to this, MIC failure events for broadcast frames are not sent to
> >supplicant resulted in AP disconnecting the STA.
> >
> >Able to pass Wifi Test case 5.2.18 with this fix.
> 
> Please do not apply this yet.  As far as I can tell, either
> of these patches breaks multiple VIF scenarios.  I'm not
> sure exactly why, but I had to revert this to get any
> of my interfaces to associate.

I'm reverting v1 and ignoring v2 on the basis of this report.

John
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