Daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed - is this a problem?

[fodiator]

@andybjackson building the patch should be fairly straightforward.

Assuming your build environment is set up as per Wiki, you can build the release equivalent as described here:

From snapshot to stable release (22.03)

Also did this, had some minor changes as compared to the reference you shared: git clone https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git cd openwrt git fetch -t git checkout v22.03.0 wget https://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/22.03.0/targets/ath79/generic/config.buildinfo -O .config ./scripts/feeds update -a && ./scripts/feeds install -a make defconfig make target/linux/{clean,compile} find build_dir/ -name .vermagic -exec cat {} \;

If you copy the patch content from above

Daemon.err hostapd: nl80211: kernel reports: key addition failed - is this a problem?

Here is the TODO excerpt: /* * The ASSOC test makes sure the driver is ready to * receive the key. When wpa_supplicant has roamed * using FT, it attempts to set the key before * association has completed, this rejects that attempt * so it will set the key again after association. * * TODO: accept the key if we have a station entry and * add it to the device after the station. */ I've included patch 100-allow_key_without_assoc.patch under [buildroot]/openwrt/package/kernel/mac80…

and place it in [buildroot]/openwrt/package/kernel/mac80211/patches/subsys

and run make world you should get the sysupgrade.bin under [buildroot]/bin/targets/[path to your device]

You can confirm the patch is part of your build strings [buildroot]/[yourtarget]/[yourlinux]/backports-5.15.58-1/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko | grep mwv .

In the meantime I am still looking to improve the solution by adding the STA to the driver as per the note above. I have been able to get insight into the hostapd code. Hoping to have an implementation within a few weeks.

The reason this code was 'corrected' seems to be - according to a comment - about hardware decryption not being active when the key is added without being associated on some systems.