wifi: mac80211: Gracefully deauthenticate on association timeout

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When an association with AP times out, and the connection is an
Enhanced Privacy Protection (EPP) connection where the TK is already
installed, send an explicit deauthentication frame to the AP so it
would clear its local state. Not doing so might impact (fail) future
connection attempts with this AP (that might think that the station
is still connected).

This cannot be done by user space, since as part of the association
timeout flow, the station and corresponding keys are removed.

Assisted-by: GithubCopilot:claude-opus-5.0
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/20260926212249.736b01b4a76d.Ie528ea57d4d8dc8abfca406f8bae55a3902ff740@changeid
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

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