It seems it is necessary to set WILC MAC address after operation mode, otherwise the MAC address of the WILC MAC is reset back to what is in nvmem. This causes a failure to associate with AP after the WILC MAC address was overridden by userspace.

Test case: " ap$ cat << EOF > hostap.conf interface=wlan0 ssid=ssid hw_mode=g channel=6 wpa=2 wpa_passphrase=pass wpa_key_mgmt=WPA-PSK EOF ap$ hostapd -d hostap.conf ap$ ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.1 "

" sta$ ifconfig wlan0 hw ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 sta$ wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c <(wpa_passphrase ssid pass) sta$ ifconfig wlan0 10.0.0.2 sta$ ping 10.0.0.1 # fails without this patch "

AP still indicates SA with original MAC address from nvmem without this patch: " nl80211: RX frame da=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff sa=60:01:23:45:67:89 bssid=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "

Fixes: 83d9b54ee5d4 ("wifi: wilc1000: read MAC address from fuse at probe") Tested-by: Alexis Lothoré alexis.lothore@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut marex@denx.de --- Cc: Ajay Singh ajay.kathat@microchip.com Cc: Alexis Lothoré alexis.lothore@bootlin.com Cc: Claudiu Beznea claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev Cc: Kalle Valo kvalo@kernel.org Cc: Marek Vasut marex@denx.de Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org --- V2: Add TB, Fixes, CC Stable --- drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c index 9ecf3fb29b558..8bc127c5a538c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c @@ -608,6 +608,9 @@ static int wilc_mac_open(struct net_device *ndev) return ret; }

+ wilc_set_operation_mode(vif, wilc_get_vif_idx(vif), vif->iftype, + vif->idx); + netdev_dbg(ndev, "Mac address: %pM\n", ndev->dev_addr); ret = wilc_set_mac_address(vif, ndev->dev_addr); if (ret) { @@ -618,9 +621,6 @@ static int wilc_mac_open(struct net_device *ndev) return ret; }

- wilc_set_operation_mode(vif, wilc_get_vif_idx(vif), vif->iftype, - vif->idx); - mgmt_regs.interface_stypes = vif->mgmt_reg_stypes; /* so we detect a change */ vif->mgmt_reg_stypes = 0;