Re: [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: cfg80211: Report port_authorized for 4-way HS offload

[Arend van Spriel]

On Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:40:51 +0200, Janne Grunau wrote:
> Since commit 416386060 ("Mark authorization completed on driver
> indication during 4-way HS offload") [0] wpa_supplicant expects
> NL80211_CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED to complete the authentication when the
> driver supports 4-way handshake offload.

In brcmfmac for 4way offload the driver waits for two dongle events before brcmf_is_linkup()
returns true and subsequently brcmf_bss_connect_done() is called to inform wpa_supplicant. At
that time the supplicant did not rely on NL80211_CMD_PORT_AUTHORIZED.

[...]

> Link: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/hostap/commit/41638606054a09867fe3f9a2b5523aa4678cbfa5 [0]
> Link: https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2024-August/042893.html [1]
> Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302577 [2]
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20260911065656.1269623-5-Jason.Huang2@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ [3]
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: b8a64f0e96c2 ("brcmfmac: support 4-way handshake offloading for WPA/WPA2-PSK")

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,
Arend

> Signed-off-by: Janne Grunau <j@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)