From 6b04716cdcac37bdbacde34def08bc6fdb5fc4e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 21:35:27 +0300 Subject: wifi: mac80211: don't complete management TX on SAE commit When SAE commit is sent and received in response, there's no ordering for the SAE confirm messages. As such, don't call drivers to stop listening on the channel when the confirm message is still expected. This fixes an issue if the local confirm is transmitted later than the AP's confirm, for iwlwifi (and possibly mt76) the AP's confirm would then get lost since the device isn't on the channel at the time the AP transmit the confirm. For iwlwifi at least, this also improves the overall timing of the authentication handshake (by about 15ms according to the report), likely since the session protection won't be aborted and rescheduled. Note that even before this, mgd_complete_tx() wasn't always called for each call to mgd_prepare_tx() (e.g. in the case of WEP key shared authentication), and the current drivers that have the complete callback don't seem to mind. Document this as well though. Reported-by: Jan Hendrik Farr Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB30Ea2kRG24LINR@archlinux/ Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250609213232.12691580e140.I3f1d3127acabcd58348a110ab11044213cf147d3@changeid Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- include/net/mac80211.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/net/mac80211.h b/include/net/mac80211.h index 14a6bd120f25..577fd6a8c372 100644 --- a/include/net/mac80211.h +++ b/include/net/mac80211.h @@ -4310,6 +4310,8 @@ struct ieee80211_prep_tx_info { * @mgd_complete_tx: Notify the driver that the response frame for a previously * transmitted frame announced with @mgd_prepare_tx was received, the data * is filled similarly to @mgd_prepare_tx though the duration is not used. + * Note that this isn't always called for each mgd_prepare_tx() call, for + * example for SAE the 'confirm' messages can be on the air in any order. * * @mgd_protect_tdls_discover: Protect a TDLS discovery session. After sending * a TDLS discovery-request, we expect a reply to arrive on the AP's -- cgit v1.2.3