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Hi,

I stumbled upon a PSM issue when a hidden SSID is used. It seems that
mac80211 is not going to power-save mode with hidden SSID AP's at all.

As far as I can see the following happens:

- When generally scanning, the AP is getting a bss entry with a zero
SSID.
- When associating, a probe-req is sent to the AP with the SSID, and as
result a probe-response is received with the hidden SSID in place -> a
second bss entry is created for the AP, now with the real SSID.
- After association, mac80211 executes ieee80211_recalc_ps(), but does
not go to powersave because the beacon-ies are missing.
- A new beacon is received for the BSSID, but it updates the bss entry
with the zero SSID, ieee80211_recalc_ps() gets called, but for the
associated bss entry the beacon-ies are still missing.

As result, the STA does not ever enter WLAN PSM.

Anyone stumbled on this issue?

-Juuso

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