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wifi: brcmfmac: log the firmware status when a connect fails

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brcmf_bss_connect_done() receives the firmware event in @e but discards it
on the failure path.  Every failed connect is reported to cfg80211 as
WLAN_STATUS_AUTH_TIMEOUT (16), whatever the firmware actually said, so
userspace only ever sees:

  wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT bssid=00:00:00:00:00:00 status_code=16

The all-zero BSSID comes from the same place: conn_params is memset to
zero and profile->bssid has not been filled in when the station never
associated.

status_code=16 therefore carries no information about the cause.  It is not
an AP response and it does not mean "authentication timed out" - it is the
only failure value this driver can produce.  This is a recurring source of
confusion: [1] has been open since 2023 with more than twenty follow-ups
and no explanation of the code, and covers BCM4345/6, BCM43430 and
CYW43455 across several kernel versions.  It supersedes [2], filed against
the firmware repository a day earlier and closed in favour of it.

The firmware's own status (BRCMF_E_STATUS_*) is more specific - FAIL,
TIMEOUT, NO_NETWORKS, ABORT and so on - and it is already in hand.  Log it
so the cause can be narrowed down without rebuilding the kernel.

bphy_err() is used rather than brcmf_dbg() or brcmf_info(): it is the form
the rest of this file uses, and of the three it is the only one that is
both visible in a distribution kernel and bounded.  brcmf_dbg(CONN)
expands to no_printk() unless CONFIG_BRCMDBG is set, which is what makes
the reports in [1] and [2] impossible to act on - the people hitting this
run stock kernels.  brcmf_info() expands to a plain pr_info() in a
non-debug build and is not rate limited, and wpa_supplicant retries the
association every few seconds, so it would flood the log.  bphy_err() is
guarded by net_ratelimit() there, so a station retrying against an
unreachable AP prints at most a few lines per second.

All three fields are printed because only some of them are meaningful on
each path into the failure branch.  brcmf_is_nonetwork() keys off @status,
so that is the useful field for a join that never associated - the case in
[1].  brcmf_is_linkdown() keys off @event_code and @flags and does not look
at @status at all, so @status can read 0 there; on those events it is
@reason which carries the 802.11 reason code, as the mapping in
brcmf_map_fw_linkdown_reason() shows.  Printing the three together lets
the reader tell which path was taken instead of guessing from one number.

The status reported to cfg80211 is left alone; changing it would alter what
userspace sees.

[1] https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/issues/38
[2] https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/issues/1829

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Ryohei Hashimoto <laurel.medalist12@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260913165526.4426-1-laurel.medalist12@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
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