wifi: mac80211: Route (Re)association req/response to per-STA queue

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An association request or response frame is generally delivered to the
driver without a TX queue object. However, with drivers that do encryption
offload and couple the key with a transmit queue, this means that the
frames are not being encrypted.

Fix this by routing the association frames to the management TXQ.
This will allow the driver to set up the required resources before
transmitting the association frame, e.g., set up keys etc.

Signed-off-by: Ilan Peer <ilan.peer@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miri Korenblit <miriam.rachel.korenblit@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260706222925.febcc62f485c.Iff932880e4b98232cbf6ba405fbb90d650a85381@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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Ilan Peer 2026-07-06 22:29:31 +03:00 • committed by Johannes Berg

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include/linux/ieee80211.h

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net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h

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net/mac80211/tx.c

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