Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: configure SAE PWE method for external SAE AP

Gokul,

Looks like this is also missing, can you please add it in your patch:

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
index d32b35ce0..455f5619f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@

#define        DOT11_BCN_PRB_FIXED_LEN         12      /* beacon/probe
fixed length */

+#define WL_IOV_OP_BSSCFG_DISABLE               0
+#define WL_IOV_OP_BSSCFG_ENABLE                        1
+#define WL_IOV_OP_MANUAL_STA_BSSCFG_CREATE     2
+#define WL_IOV_OP_MANUAL_AP_BSSCFG_CREATE      3
+
#define BRCMF_SCAN_JOIN_ACTIVE_DWELL_TIME_MS   320
#define BRCMF_SCAN_JOIN_PASSIVE_DWELL_TIME_MS  400
#define BRCMF_SCAN_JOIN_PROBE_INTERVAL_MS      20
@@ -5260,6 +5265,19 @@ brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap(struct wiphy *wiphy,
struct net_device *ndev,
               if ((brcmf_feat_is_enabled(ifp, BRCMF_FEAT_MBSS)) && (!mbss))
                       brcmf_fil_iovar_int_set(ifp, "mbss", 1);

+               if (!test_bit(BRCMF_VIF_STATUS_AP_CREATED,
&ifp->vif->sme_state)) {
+                       bss_enable.bsscfgidx = cpu_to_le32(ifp->bsscfgidx);
+                       bss_enable.enable =
+                               cpu_to_le32(WL_IOV_OP_MANUAL_AP_BSSCFG_CREATE);
+                       err = brcmf_fil_iovar_data_set(ifp, "bss", &bss_enable,
+                                                      sizeof(bss_enable));
+                       if (err < 0) {
+                               bphy_err(drvr, "bss_enable config failed %d\n",
+                                        err);
+                               goto exit;
+                       }
+               }
+
               err = brcmf_fil_cmd_int_set(ifp, BRCMF_C_SET_AP, 1);
               if (err < 0) {
                       bphy_err(drvr, "setting AP mode failed %d\n",

Thanks,
Bogdan

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 8:19 AM Bogdan Nicolae <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Gokul,
>
> Great to hear. Are there any other changes you are planning to submit?
> I found this to be the minimal working config at least for WPA3 personal, but would like to know if I am missing anything else.
>
> Thanks,
> Bogdan
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 07:28 Arend van Spriel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On 29/07/2026 13:48, Bogdan Nicolae wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 04:48 Arend van Spriel
>> >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     On 29/07/2026 07:34, Bogdan Nicolae wrote:
>> >>      > When bringing up a WPA3-SAE SoftAP with external (user space)
>> >>     SAE, the
>> >>      > driver never told the firmware which SAE Password Element (PWE)
>> >>     method to
>> >>      > accept. The firmware was observed to corrupt its heap over time
>> >>     due to
>> >>      > this omission, leading to firmware trap (data abort in heap
>> >>     allocator).
>> >>      >
>> >>      > Parse the beacon IEs on start_ap() and set the extsae_pwe iovar
>> >>      > accordingly: 2 when the RSNX IE advertises H2E, 1 when an H2E-only
>> >>      > membership selector is present, 0 otherwise. This matches the
>> >>     behaviour
>> >>      > of the upstream/vendor driver and only applies to SAE-capable APs
>> >>     when
>> >>      > external SAE is supported.
>> >>
>> >>     This makes sense, but may I ask what device do you have? Suspect it
>> >>     is a
>> >>     Cypress/Infineon chip. I could not find the iovar in our (Broadcom bca)
>> >>     code base so I suspect it is vendor specific.
>> > Hi Arend,
>> >
>> > Indeed, this is a bcm43455 as found on Raspberry Pi SoCs.
>> Than we should only invoke the parse function for cyw vendor.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arend