netdev - [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: Increase session protection duration for association

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Date:   Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:48:00 +0800
From:   Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     johannes.berg@...el.com, emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com,
        luciano.coelho@...el.com
Cc:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        Tova Mussai <tova.mussai@...el.com>,
        Haim Dreyfuss <haim.dreyfuss@...el.com>,
        Andrei Otcheretianski <andrei.otcheretianski@...el.com>,
        Shaul Triebitz <shaul.triebitz@...el.com>,
        Naftali Goldstein <naftali.goldstein@...el.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org (open list:INTEL WIRELESS WIFI LINK
        (iwlwifi)), netdev@...r.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS),
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org (open list)
Subject: [PATCH] iwlwifi: mvm: Increase session protection duration for association

Sometimes Intel AX201 fails to associate with AP:
[  839.290042] wlp0s20f3: authenticate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
[  839.291737] wlp0s20f3: send auth to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[  839.350010] wlp0s20f3: send auth to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
[  839.360826] wlp0s20f3: authenticated
[  839.363205] wlp0s20f3: associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[  839.370342] wlp0s20f3: RX AssocResp from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=12)
[  839.378925] wlp0s20f3: associated
[  839.431788] wlp0s20f3: deauthenticated from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (Reason: 2=PREV_AUTH_NOT_VALID)

It fails because EAPOL hasn't finished. Increase the  session protection
duration to 1200TU can eliminate the problem.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209237
Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
index 9374c85c5caf..54acd9a68955 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/mvm/mac80211.c
@@ -3297,13 +3297,13 @@ static void iwl_mvm_mac_mgd_prepare_tx(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
 	 * session for a much longer time since the firmware will internally
 	 * create two events: a 300TU one with a very high priority that
 	 * won't be fragmented which should be enough for 99% of the cases,
-	 * and another one (which we configure here to be 900TU long) which
+	 * and another one (which we configure here to be 1200TU long) which
 	 * will have a slightly lower priority, but more importantly, can be
 	 * fragmented so that it'll allow other activities to run.
 	 */
 	if (fw_has_capa(&mvm->fw->ucode_capa,
 			IWL_UCODE_TLV_CAPA_SESSION_PROT_CMD))
-		iwl_mvm_schedule_session_protection(mvm, vif, 900,
+		iwl_mvm_schedule_session_protection(mvm, vif, 1200,
 						    min_duration, false);
 	else
 		iwl_mvm_protect_session(mvm, vif, duration,
-- 
2.17.1