Re: Linux 5.6.0 regression: wlan0: authentication with 64:66:b3:xx:xx:xx timed out

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Mon Mar 30 2020 - 05:14:06 EST


On Mon, 2020-03-30 at 10:52 +0200, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> L.S.,
>
> Linux 5.6.0 has a regression compared to my previous build of Linus his
> tree 5.6-rc7-ish (pulled and build on 2020-03-26), so it must be
> introduced in one of the last 2 netdev pulls.
>
> Both my laptops don't connect to Wifi any more, wifi hardware is intel:
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev 83)
>
> Logging shows a repeat of:
> [ 512.085509] wlan0: authentication with 64:66:b3:xx:xx:xx timed out
> [ 521.048959] wlan0: authenticate with 64:66:b3:be:b6:cc
> [ 521.052416] wlan0: send auth to 64:66:b3:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
> [ 521.053199] wlan0: send auth to 64:66:b3:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
> [ 521.053209] wlan0: send auth to 64:66:b3:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
>
> Any ideas ?
> (will probably have some time to bisect later today)

Yeah, sorry, my bad.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=be8c827f50a0bcd56361b31ada11dc0a3c2fd240

johannes