Jouni Malinen [Wed, 29 May 2024 16:40:27 +0000 (19:40 +0300)]
WNM: Allow a specific BSS max idle period to be requested
Add a new wpa_supplicant network profile parameter max_idle that can be
used to specify a specific maximum idle period in units of 1000 TUs
(1.024 s) for associations.
Jouni Malinen [Wed, 29 May 2024 09:57:08 +0000 (12:57 +0300)]
WNM: Group rekeying skipping with BSS max idle period management
Allow hostapd to be configured to not disconnect a STA if the STA fails
to reply to a group key handshake when BSS max idle period management is
used. This might be needed for some STAs that use aggressive power
saving (e.g., battery powered IoT devices).
This is disabled by default since this can delayed group rekeying
slightly and also to maintain the previous behavior. The more relaxed
operation can be enabled with the new configuration parameter
no_disconnect_on_group_keyerror=1.
Jouni Malinen [Wed, 29 May 2024 09:41:51 +0000 (12:41 +0300)]
WNM: Configurable BSS Max Idle Period management on AP
Allow AP's behavior for BSS Max Idle Period management to be configured.
Previously, this was automatically enabled for all CONFIG_WNM_AP=y
builds. This can now be changed with the new hostapd configuration
parameter bss_max_idle:
0 = BSS Max Idle Period management disabled
1 = BSS Max Idle Period management enabled
(default and the previous behavior)
2 = BSS Max Idle Period management enabled with requirement for
protected keep-alive frames
Aditya Kodukula [Wed, 8 May 2024 01:04:31 +0000 (18:04 -0700)]
Add vendor attributes to configure TX/RX NSS and chains per band
Add attributes to QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_SET_WIFI_CONFIGURATION
vendor command to configure asymmetric TX/RX NSS and chains per band.
Also document driver's response when existing attributes to configure
TX/RX NSS and chains for all the bands 2.4 GHz and 5/6 GHz are used in
the same command.
Aditya Kodukula [Tue, 7 May 2024 19:48:42 +0000 (12:48 -0700)]
Add kernel documentation for nss and chain configuration vendor command
Add kernel documentation to the attributes used in the vendor command
QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_SET_WIFI_CONFIGURATION to configure the NSS
and chains values used for transmitting and receiving the data.
mtk30479 [Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:51:43 +0000 (11:51 +0800)]
P2P: Fix fast IP address allocation for invitation of a persistent group
Allocate static IPv4 address in EAPOL frames during 4-way handshake
instead of DHCP when using P2P invitation. wpa_s->current_bss needs to
be set for the P2P specific IP address assignment mechanism to be used
in wpa_supplicant_rsn_supp_set_config(). This worked for the initial P2P
connection, but not for some cases reinvoking a persistent group.
Since there is only one AP (P2P GO) in the P2P client case, the
conditions added in commit 4d3be9cdd143 ("Postpone updating of
wpa_s->current_bss till association event") are not needed and the
easiest approach for this is to allow current_bss to be set for
p2p_in_invitation cases. If the GO P2P Interface Address (BSSID) could
be determined for all the related cases, this could be addressed a bit
more cleanly by setting the go_bssid argument for
wpas_start_p2p_client(), but that can be left as a possible future step.
Signed-off-by: tzu-meng wang <tzu-meng.wang@mediatek.com>
Add a test case 'eht_mld_cohosted_connectivity' which creates two 2 link
AP MLDs and connect a 2 link MLD client to each one of them and test
data traffic.
Add test cases to test basic cohosted MLDs functionality. Add helper
functions to create the configuration file, start hostapd instance.
Client connectivity test case will be added via a subsequent commit.
eht_mld_cohosted_discovery: 2 co-hosted MLDs without non-MLD RNR. Basic
bring up and beacon, MLD RNR, scan validation.
eht_mld_cohosted_discovery_with_rnr: Same like eht_mld_cohosted_discovery
but additionally non-MLD RNR (rnr=1) is also enabled. Validate the non-MLD
RNR as well.
Update Probe Response template on BSS color change
When AP is beaconing only on the 6 GHz band and unsol_bcast_presp
interval is set, AP sends unsolicited broadcast Probe Response frames
for in-band discovery. hostapd sent the Probe Response template for this
frame only when setting a new Beacon frame template.
Extend this to update the Probe Response template during BSS color
change.
Signed-off-by: Rathees Kumar R Chinannan <quic_rrchinan@quicinc.com>
When AP is beaconing only on the 6 GHz band and unsol_bcast_presp
interval is set, AP sends unsolicited broadcast Probe Response frames
for in-band discovery. hostapd sent the Probe Response template for this
frame only when setting a new Beacon frame template.
Extend this to update the Probe Response template during channel switch.
Signed-off-by: Rathees Kumar R Chinannan <quic_rrchinan@quicinc.com>
More generic unsolicited broadcast Probe Response template setup
When AP is beaconing only on the 6 GHz band and unsol_bcast_presp
interval is set, AP sends unsolicited broadcast Probe Response frames
for in-band discovery. hostapd sent the Probe Response template for this
frame only when setting a new beacon.
As a preparation for extending this functionality to other cases, move
the generation of the unsolicited broadcast Probe Response template into
a more generic function and data structure.
Signed-off-by: Rathees Kumar R Chinannan <quic_rrchinan@quicinc.com>
Amith A [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 09:11:16 +0000 (14:41 +0530)]
Make selection of current opclass more generic for 20 MHz UNI-III channels
According to IEEE Std 802.11-2020, Operating classes Table E-2 (Europe)
and Table E-6 (China) map channels in the range 149 to 161 to the global
operating class 125, while Table E-1 (United States) maps these channels
to global operating classes 125 and 124 as well. The global operating
class 125 contains all channels from the global operating class 124 and
some additional channels.
Hence, to make the selection of the current operating class generic, use
operating class 125 for all 20 MHz channels in the range 149 to 161.
Signed-off-by: Amith A <quic_amitajit@quicinc.com>
Sriram R [Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:08:42 +0000 (22:38 +0530)]
FILS: Add Operating Class and Primary Channel in FD for non-PSC chan
If a non-PSC 6 GHz channel with bandwidth higher than 20 MHz is
configured, duplicate beacons/FD/UBPR will be transmitted in other 20
MHz channels of the current configured bandwidth to aid in faster scan.
In such cases the duplicate FD needs to carry the Operating Class and
Primary Channel subfields for non-AP STAs to identify the primary
non-PSC.
IEEE Std 802.11-2020, 9.6.7.36 (FILS Discovery frame format):
"The Operating Class subfield specifies the operating class of the
Primary Channel of the transmitting AP (see 9.4.1.36).
The Primary Channel subfield is set to the channel number of the primary
channel (see 11.15.2) if the FILS Discovery frame is transmitted as a
non-HT duplicate PPDU; otherwise, the subfield is not present."
Hence, add the Operating Class and Primary Channel subfields if the
current channel is non-PSC and the channel bandwidth is 40 MHz or
higher.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Kathirvel <quic_kathirve@quicinc.com>
nl80211: Update link bandwidth when receiving channel switch event
There is a chance that the driver has switched the channel width so we
should update the bandwidth, too, when receiving a channel switch event.
Otherwise, this may cause out of sync for bandwidth between i802_link
and hostapd_config.
AP MLD: Set link_id field in hostapd_freq_params when setting up AP
If not set, 0 is set by default and this could fail in the following
code path when link ID is not matching:
hostapd_drv_set_ap -> wpa_driver_nl80211_set_ap -> nl80211_set_channel
Add QCA vendor subcommand to suspend/resume AP interface
Add a new QCA vendor subcommand QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_AP_SUSPEND to
allow suspend and resume the AP interface. When an AP is suspended, it
disconnects all connected clients and stops all TX/RX operations on the
AP interface. The driver retains the AP configuration and on resume, all
AP operations are resumed with the same configuration.
This subcommand is also used in the event path to notify userspace about
AP suspended or resumed state changes.
This uses attributes defined in enum qca_wlan_vendor_attr_ap_suspend.
Wait for both peers to be connected before checking MESH_LINK_PROBE
behavior. Without this, it was possible for a MESH_LINK_PROBE command to
be issues before the specific peer had been added and that would result
in the nl80211 command failing.
tests: Fix autogo_chan_switch to not drop HT capability
This test case ended up dropping HT capability on channel switch which
is now resulting in mac80211 disconnecting. Avoid this by leaving HT
enabled. In addition, check the P2P Client events explicitly.
AP MLD: Add MLO Link KDE for each affiliated link in EAPOL-Key 3/4
Previously, MLO Link KDE was added only for each link that was
negotiated for the ML association. However, IEEE Std 802.11be/D5.0,
12.7.6.1 defines the MLO Link KDE to be included "for each affiliated
AP" which is not constrained by what the non-AP MLD might have requested
or what the negotiation outcome for this particular ML association is.
AP MLD: Do not store per-supplicant AP RSNE/RSNXE information
There is no need to store the AP MLD's RSNE/RSNXE within per-supplicant
data structure in struct wpa_state_machine since those elements are
available from the generic authenticator data in struct
wpa_authenticator.
AP MLD: Do not store per-supplicant AP link MAC address information
There is no need to store the AP MLD's link MAC addresses within
per-supplicant data structure in struct wpa_state_machine since those
MAC addresses are available from the generic authenticator data in
struct wpa_authenticator.
AP MLD: Do not store per-supplicant AP MLD MAC address information
There is no need to store the AP MLD MAC address within per-supplicant
data structure in struct wpa_state_machine since that MLD MAC address is
available from the generic authenticator data in struct
wpa_authenticator.
Lee Harding [Tue, 9 Apr 2024 22:06:38 +0000 (15:06 -0700)]
Allow Session-Timeout with PSK RADIUS during 4-way handshake
When the RADIUS response included a Session-Timeout attribute, but is
otherwise valid (an Access-Accept with a valid Tunnel-Password), the
association still failed due to the strict comparison of the accepted
value with HOSTAPD_ACL_ACCEPT. Apparently this combination wasn't
previously tested.
Extend this to allow a packet containing a valid Session-Timeout
attribute to be accepted by extending the "success" comparison to
include HOSTAPD_ACL_ACCEPT_TIMEOUT.
Fixes: 1c3438fec4ba ("RADIUS ACL/PSK check during 4-way handshake") Signed-off-by: Lee Harding <somerandomstring@gmail.com>
Fix center segment indexes in channel switch fallback to non-5 GHz cases
Hardcoded conversion for 5 GHz band was used, but this won't work for
other cases. Set the correct center segment indexes in channel switch
fallback for non-5GHz band.
Benjamin Berg [Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:45:24 +0000 (15:45 +0300)]
P2P: Call normal SD query callback on RX/TX race
If the TX success response races with the RX frame then the state
machine was simply move to P2P_SD_DURING_FIND to continue the operation.
However, this does not take into account broadcast queries where the
callback handler updates the peer's sd_pending_bcast_queries.
Fix this by exporting the callback and calling it directly. This is
fine, as the operation is cancelled immediately afterwards, ensuring
that the callback is not called a second time.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Benjamin Berg [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:07:00 +0000 (16:07 +0300)]
ctrl_iface: Allow sending ML probe without AP MLD ID
If one sends a Probe Request frame to a non-TX BSSID, no AP MLD ID
should be included in the request. Permit mld_id to be -1 so that it is
not a required argument and can be left out.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Ilan Peer [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:06:59 +0000 (16:06 +0300)]
SME: MLD: Clear MLD state only after the deauthentication
In case of failure handling an Authentication frame from the AP MLD,
clear the MLD state only after the deauthentication is done. This allows
deauthentication process to use the AP MLD MAC address.
Ilan Peer [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:06:57 +0000 (16:06 +0300)]
SME: MLD: Deauthenticate when failing to parse ML element
If parsing the basic ML element in the Authenticate frame fails,
instead of only disassociating, completely deauthenticate so all
state machines would be in a consistent state.
Ilan Peer [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:06:56 +0000 (16:06 +0300)]
wpa_supplicant: Do not roam to an associated link
When considering to roam to a different BSS and the connection
is an MLD connection, do not roam to a BSS which is already
included in the MLD connection.
Ilan Peer [Mon, 8 Apr 2024 13:06:55 +0000 (16:06 +0300)]
tests: Wait after removing a BSS
When a BSS is removed, the flow continues without actually
waiting for the AP to be stopped. This is racy in flows that
actually expect the AP to be stopped, e.g., test_ap_bss_add_remove().
Try to mitigate such cases by adding a short sleep after the
AP is removed.
Clear connect_without_scan on network profile removal
wpa_s->connect_without_scan could have been left pointing to invalid
network when a network profile was removed. It seems to be possible for
this to happen in some hwsim test case scenarios under specific timing,
but the exact reason for this is not clear. In any case, this pointer
needs to be cleared.
Check whether to skip a BSS in RNR with a shared helper
The functions that determine the length of the RNR information and that
build the actual RNR need to use the same conditions for skipping BSSs.
Use a shared helper function for this to avoid having to maintain two
copies of the same implementation and the risking those getting out of
sync.
RNR formation for co-location or MLO did not work as expected. Fix this.
For example, during co-location, if the BSS is also its ML partner
there is no need to include a separate TBTT for it.
Also, during co-location, if the BSS is not its partner but it is ML
capable, the TBTT length should be 16 bytes and it should include the
MLD Parameters for it in the RNR.
During co-location, for a given Neighbor AP (operating on a given
channel and op-class) if it has BSSs which are ML capable as well as
BSSs which are not, there should be two Neighbor AP Info present: one
indicating TBTT length as 13 bytes and one indicating TBTT info length
as 16 bytes.
Whenever a BSS was set up,hostapd flushed all stations via the flush()
driver operation which maps to NL80211_CMD_DEL_STATION in the nl80211
interface. However, in case of MLO, a station could have been connected
to other links by the time this link is coming up. Since link ID was not
passed to flush(), all those stations entries were also removed in the
driver which is wrong.
Include the link ID along with the command in AP MLD so that the driver
can use this link ID and flush only the stations that use the passed
link ID as one of their links.
Group rekeying was not supported for ML stations when non-association
link initiates a group rekey. Support this by arming the group key rekey
timer on one of the affiliated links and whenever this timer fires,
rekey group keys on all the affiliated links.
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com> Co-developed-by: Adil Saeed Musthafa <quic_adilm@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Adil Saeed Musthafa <quic_adilm@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
AP MLD: Calculate ML KDE length separately for each link
Calculate links specific MLO GTK/IGTK/BIGTK KDE lengths based on
corresponding cipher and key instead of taking length of one link and
multiplying it by no of associated links. This is needed since the group
ciphers might be different between the affiliated links.
Signed-off-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <quic_ramess@quicinc.com> Co-developed-by: Adil Saeed Musthafa <quic_adilm@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Adil Saeed Musthafa <quic_adilm@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
Make the code more readable by using a define for the PN length to avoid
potential confusion of this 6 octet length with the MAC address length.
In addition, Use ETH_ALEN more consistently for the latter.
Add required ML specific members in struct wpa_authenticator and struct
wpa_state_machine to maintain self and partner link information.
Maintain state machine object in all associated link stations and
destroy/remove references from the same whenever link stations are
getting removed.
Increase the wpa_group object reference count for all links in which ML
station is getting associated and release the same whenever link
stations are getting removed.
AP MLD: Skip association link processing in ML info
All links were iterated over during processing ML info in Association
Request frame. However, the association link info will not be present in
the ML info and hence the following debug print is observed during ML
association (assoc link is 1):
MLD: No link match for link_id=1
Skip processing for the association link to avoid this.
Sriram R [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:16:42 +0000 (23:46 +0530)]
hostapd: Make hostapd_eapol_tx_status() function static
hostapd_eapol_tx_status() function is used only in drv_callbacks.c.
However, it is defined in ieee802_11.c which is not really the correct
place for it.
Hence, move the function into drv_callbacks.c and make it static.
No functionality changes.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
Sriram R [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:16:41 +0000 (23:46 +0530)]
nl80211: Move control port TX status to per BSS handling
Control port TX status events were handled on drv's first BSS
only. However, to support multiple MLDs there is requirement to handle
this on a given BSS.
Use the passed BSS instead of always going with drv's first BSS.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
Sriram R [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:16:41 +0000 (23:46 +0530)]
nl80211: Move Management frame TX status to per BSS handling
Management frame TX status events were handled on drv's first BSS
only. However, to support multiple MLDs there is requirement to handle
this on a given BSS.
Use the passed BSS instead of always going with drv's first BSS.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
Sriram R [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:16:39 +0000 (23:46 +0530)]
AP MLD: Use link_id in the get_hapd_bssid() helper function
The get_hapd_bssid() function matched the given BSSID in all BSSs of its
own interface. However with MLO, there is requirement to check its own
partner BSS at least.
Compare the BSS's link partners as well and if the specified link ID
matches the link ID of the partner, return the BSS.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
Sriram R [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:16:37 +0000 (23:46 +0530)]
AP MLD: Support cohosted ML BSS
AP MLD was added with an assumption of only a single BSS per link in the
hostapd configuration. This needs to be extended when a cohosted ML BSS
exist in the same configuration.
Extend the support for cohosted BSSs. This is required for MBSSID MLO
support as well.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
AP MLD: Reset authenticator state machine's ML info
Authenticator state machine ML info was set only when it was created.
However, if the association is tried again, the state machine will
already exist and hence the ML info will not be refreshed. This leads to
an issue where if in the subsequent association request, the MLD info is
different than the old info, validation of it will fail.
Fix this issue by refreshing the authenticator state machine's ML info
every time association request is handled.
Sriram R [Wed, 17 Apr 2024 04:27:44 +0000 (09:57 +0530)]
AP MLD: Handle authentication and association on link address
The nl80211 driver interface function mlme_event_mgmt_tx_status(),
filled in link_id only if the frame was the last transmitted on the
whole drv (driver) level. With co-hosted MLDs, there could be cases
where multiple frames are sent out by various interfaces (BSS) under the
same drv. Now while handling the TX status, only one interface will get
the proper link_id. Rest will get -1 and the event will be routed to the
first BSS always. If the frame was not sent from the first BSS this
leads to possibility of the frame getting dropped.
Hence to make the underlying link identification easier, modify
authentication and association frames to be always sent with the link
address as A1 and A3 for ease of TX status handling.
Signed-off-by: Sriram R <quic_srirrama@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kumar Singh <quic_adisi@quicinc.com>
nl80211: Restore libnl3-route inclusion for full VLAN support with netlink
The changes in nl80211 to get rid of the libnl3-route dependency are not
sufficient to fully remove the depency from other parts of the code.
Revert the makefile related changes from that commit to avoid build
issues for cases where CONFIG_FULL_DYNAMIC_VLAN=y and
CONFIG_VLAN_NETLINK=y are used without CONFIG_DRIVER_MACSEC_LINUX=y
pulling in the needed library.
Fixes: a210fdb1c717 ("nl80211: Rewrite neigh code to not depend on libnl3-route") Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <quic_jouni@quicinc.com>
Add a vendor attribute to configure custom keep-alive interval for STA
Introduce an attribute QCA_WLAN_VENDOR_ATTR_CONFIG_KEEP_ALIVE_INTERVAL
in QCA_NL80211_VENDOR_SUBCMD_SET_WIFI_CONFIGURATION to configure
station's keep-alive interval to the driver/firmware. This can be used
to resolve kickout issues from APs which kick out STAs before the BSS
maximum idle period expires.
Add QCA vendor interface for reporting station info in unicast event
Add a QCA vendor command for registering NL80211_CMD_GET_STATION
response as a unicast event when there is a NL80211_CMD_GET_STATION
request from any userspace module.
The driver will send the unicast events with the same netlink port ID
which is used by userspace application for sending the registration
command. If multiple registration commands are received with different
netlink port IDs, the driver will send unicast event with each netlink
port ID separately.
Userspace application can deregister the unicast events with disable
configuration. The registrations will be removed automatically by the
driver when the corresponding netlink socket is closed.
This will help avoid multiple NL80211_CMD_GET_STATION requests from
different userspace applications in short span. The userspace
application which registers for the unicast event can avoid sending
NL80211_CMD_GET_STATION request again if the response is available with
a recently received unicast event.
Manaswini Paluri [Wed, 28 Feb 2024 05:41:43 +0000 (11:11 +0530)]
Add TWT responder support for AP in HT and VHT modes
Add support for TWT responder for AP operating in HT and VHT modes by
introducing a new configuration parameter ht_vht_twt_responder. When
this is enabled, TWT responder mode support in HT and VHT modes is
enabled if the driver supports this and is disabled otherwise.
At least some of the previous versions have expired, so need to re-sign
these to avoid EAP test case failures. This contains updates from
running tests/hwsim/auth_server/update.sh.
nl80211: Generate link add command on per-BSS basis for AP MLD
Function nl80211_link_add() created the link add netlink message on drv
basis which in turn always uses the drv's first BSS. To support link add
for various other interfaces, use the per-BSS function to create the
netlink message.
for_each_mld_link() macro used three nested for loops. Since now the
affliated links are linked together via a linked list, the logic can be
improved by using dl_list_for_each() macro instead which uses one for
loop.
Modify for_each_mld_link() macro to use dl_list_for_each() instead.
Johannes Berg [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:07:00 +0000 (14:07 +0100)]
tests: Add test with stuck ECSA in Probe Response frames
Add a test behaving like an Asus RT-AC53 with firmware
3.0.0.4.380_10760-g21a5898, which (in some cases?) can have an ECSA
element stuck in the probe response, when the channel switch is long
finished.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Johannes Berg [Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:06:59 +0000 (14:06 +0100)]
tests: Add connecting-while-CSA tests
Add a few tests to validate what happens with connections
while an AP is doing CSA:
- quiet to diff channel (shouldn't connect)
- quiet to same channel (shouldn't connect)
- non-quiet to diff channel (shouldn't connect)
- non-quiet to same channel (should connect)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Felix Fietkau [Thu, 4 Apr 2024 13:03:27 +0000 (15:03 +0200)]
build: De-duplicate _DIRS before calling mkdir
If the build path is long, the contents of the _DIRS variable can be
very long, since it repeats the same directories very often. In some
cases, this has triggered an "Argument list too long" build error.
Reported-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Eneas U de Queiroz <cotequeiroz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Felix Fietkau [Thu, 4 Apr 2024 10:52:15 +0000 (12:52 +0200)]
mesh: Allow processing authentication frames in blocked state
If authentication fails repeatedly, e.g., because of a weak signal, the
link can end up in blocked state. If one of the nodes tries to establish
a link again before it is unblocked on the other side, it will block the
link to that other side. The same happens on the other side when it
unblocks the link. In that scenario, the link never recovers on its own.
To fix this, allow restarting authentication even if the link is in
blocked state, but don't initiate the attempt until the blocked period
is over. This reverts commit 09d96de09e01 ("mesh: Drop Authentication
frames from BLOCKED STA").