Re: wifi: iwlwifi: SAE fails when AP sends confirm before STA

Denis Kenzior <[email protected]> Tue, 13 May 2025 09:03:54 -0500
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.iwd,org.kernel.vger.linux-wireless
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Jan,

 >
> There is a an SAE confirm sent by the AP. It's frame 170 in
> capture2.pcapng. It's also retried a number of times after that.
> 

What I also find interesting is that the kernel on the client side reports 
sending the Authenticate-Confirm 3 times (according to dmesg and trace2.dat), 
but only a single Confirm from the client is seen in the air trace.  I'm 
guessing the retransmissions (attempt 2 & 3) are lost somehow?.

[64414.164169] wlan0: send auth to 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f (try 2/3)
[64415.063575] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Not associated and the session protection 
is over already...
[64415.063668] wlan0: Connection to AP 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f lost
[64416.215729] wlan0: send auth to 96:2a:6f:b6:d7:9f (try 3/3)

Regards,
-Denis