This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wifi: brcmsmac: advertise MFP_CAPABLE to enable WPA3
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
wifi-brcmsmac-advertise-mfp_capable-to-enable-wpa3.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit efbd195751758392afcdd49f6feae67f9b914e02
Author: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jun 17 14:26:09 2024 +0200
wifi: brcmsmac: advertise MFP_CAPABLE to enable WPA3
[ Upstream commit dbb5265a5d7cca1cdba7736dba313ab7d07bc19d ]
After being asked about support for WPA3 for BCM43224 chipset it
was found that all it takes is setting the MFP_CAPABLE flag and
mac80211 will take care of all that is needed [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20200526155909.5807-2-Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Reijer Boekhoff <reijerboekhoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240617122609.349582-1-arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
index a4034d44609b..94b1e4f15b41 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
@@ -1089,6 +1089,7 @@ static int ieee_hw_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw)
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, AMPDU_AGGREGATION);
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, SIGNAL_DBM);
ieee80211_hw_set(hw, REPORTS_TX_ACK_STATUS);
+ ieee80211_hw_set(hw, MFP_CAPABLE);
hw->extra_tx_headroom = brcms_c_get_header_len();
hw->queues = N_TX_QUEUES;
