From: Rafael Beims Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:18 +0000 (-0300) Subject: wifi: mwifiex: fix roaming to different channel in host_mlme mode X-Git-Tag: v7.2-rc4~17^2~16^2~45 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a707e4127c0f893c7a7703500ab56297a5bd2d51;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git wifi: mwifiex: fix roaming to different channel in host_mlme mode When host MLME is enabled, mwifiex_cfg80211_authenticate() transmits the authentication frame on a remain-on-channel (ROC) reservation so that the frame is sent on the target BSS's channel. The ROC is only configured when priv->auth_flag is zero. priv->auth_flag is set to HOST_MLME_AUTH_PENDING when the auth frame is queued and advances to HOST_MLME_AUTH_DONE once authentication completes. It is only cleared back to zero on a disconnect, deauth or timeout path; nothing clears it when an association succeeds. It therefore stays at HOST_MLME_AUTH_DONE for the whole connected session. When the station later roams to a BSS on a different channel, the next authentication finds auth_flag != 0, skips the ROC setup, and the auth frame is transmitted on the currently-associated channel instead of the target's channel. Authentication times out on the new AP and the device stays connected to the original AP. Gate the ROC setup on HOST_MLME_AUTH_PENDING instead of on auth_flag being completely clear. This re-arms the remain-on-channel for every new authentication attempt, while still suppressing a redundant ROC during the multi-frame SAE exchange, where auth_flag stays PENDING between the commit and confirm frames. This change was tested in 3 different devices: Verdin AM62 (IW412 SD-UART) - (16.92.21.p142) Verdin iMX8MM (W8997 SD-SD) - (16.68.1.p197) Verdin iMX8MP (W8997 SD-UART) - (16.92.21.p137) There following loop tests were performed: 1) force roaming between two AP's, one 5GHz and one 2.4GHz, same SSID. Use wpa_cli to trigger the roaming behavior, sleep 2s between iterations. 2) force a disconnection to AP 1 and a connection to AP 2, test scan. Use wpa_cli to trigger the connection changes, sleep 2s between iterations. Each test ran in each device for at least 3 hours. Fixes: 36995892c271 ("wifi: mwifiex: add host mlme for client mode") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 Signed-off-by: Rafael Beims Reviewed-by: Francesco Dolcini Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260610150021.1018611-1-rafael@beims.me Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg --- diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c index c9daf893472fe..abc703441c5d8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/cfg80211.c @@ -4334,7 +4334,7 @@ mwifiex_cfg80211_authenticate(struct wiphy *wiphy, return -EOPNOTSUPP; } - if (!priv->auth_flag) { + if (!(priv->auth_flag & HOST_MLME_AUTH_PENDING)) { ret = mwifiex_remain_on_chan_cfg(priv, HostCmd_ACT_GEN_SET, req->bss->channel, AUTH_TX_DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME);