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    mac80211: Reset MBSSID parameters upon connection · 86af062f
    Manikanta Pubbisetty authored
    Currently MBSSID parameters in struct ieee80211_bss_conf
    are not reset upon connection. This could be problematic
    with some drivers in a scenario where the device first
    connects to a non-transmit BSS and then connects to a
    transmit BSS of a Multi BSS AP. The MBSSID parameters
    which are set after connecting to a non-transmit BSS will
    not be reset and the same parameters will be passed on to
    the driver during the subsequent connection to a transmit
    BSS of a Multi BSS AP.
    
    For example, firmware running on the ath11k device uses the
    Multi BSS data for tracking the beacon of a non-transmit BSS
    and reports the driver when there is a beacon miss. If we do
    not reset the MBSSID parameters during the subsequent
    connection to a transmit BSS, then the driver would have
    wrong MBSSID data and FW would be looking for an incorrect
    BSSID in the MBSSID beacon of a Multi BSS AP and reports
    beacon loss leading to an unstable connection.
    
    Reset the MBSSID parameters upon every connection to solve this
    problem.
    
    Fixes: 78ac51f8 ("mac80211: support multi-bssid")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarManikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220428052744.27040-1-quic_mpubbise@quicinc.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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