Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems it is necessary to set WILC MAC address after operation mode,
> otherwise the MAC address of the WILC MAC is reset back to what is in
> nvmem. This causes a failure to associate with AP after the WILC MAC
> address was overridden by userspace.
>
> Test case:
> "
> ap$ cat << EOF > hostap.conf
> interface=wlan0
> ssid=ssid
> hw_mode=g
> channel=6
> wpa=2
> wpa_passphrase=pass
> wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> EOF
> ap$ hostapd -d hostap.conf
> ap$ ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1
> "
>
> "
> sta$ ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
> sta$ wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase ssid pass)
> sta$ ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.2
> sta$ ping 10.0.0.1 # fails without this patch
> "
>
> AP still indicates SA with original MAC address from nvmem without this patch:
> "
> nl80211: RX frame da=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff sa=60:01:23:45:67:89 bssid=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ...
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> "
>
> Fixes: 83d9b54ee5d4 ("wifi: wilc1000: read MAC address from fuse at probe")
> Tested-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@xxxxxxx>
Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.
29dd3e48b9bd wifi: wilc1000: Set MAC after operation mode
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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20241003132504.52233-1-marex@xxxxxxx/
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
