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

On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 19:36 +0200, Jan Hendrik Farr wrote:
> > 
> > Hm. Yeah, I missed the second path that goes there in this case ...
> > 
> > https://p.sipsolutions.net/0c145f72fdec3cf5.txt
> 
> This work!
> 
> Interestingly though, now the order is always:
> 1. client commit
> 2. AP commit
> 3. client confirm
> 4. AP confirm
> 
> It is now only ~5.3 ms between AP commit and client confirm vs
> ~21.2 ms before.
> 
> Do you have an explanation why this patch would change the timing?

Probably scheduling delay in the firmware. Before, to send the second
frame, the client would have create a new schedule and airtime
allocation in the firmware. Now it just keeps the old one so doesn't
have to.

> So this test doesn't proof that it would work with the order the other way
> around. Maybe I should try making iwd sleep while generating the commit.

I guess you could, right.

johannes