wifi: ath12k: fix EAPOL TX failure caused by stale tcl_metadata bits

On WCN7850, after the following sequence:

  1. load ath12k and connect to a non-MLO AP
  2. disconnect and connect to an MLO AP
  3. disconnect and reconnect to the non-MLO AP

the third connection always fails with a 4-Way handshake timeout. The
supplicant transmits message 2 of 4 four times in response to AP
retries of message 1, but the AP never sees any of them.

ath12k_dp_vdev_tx_attach() composes dp_link_vif->tcl_metadata using |=,
but dp_link_vif is embedded in struct ath12k_dp_vif and its slots are
reused across vif/peer teardown and setup. Since tcl_metadata is never
cleared on detach, vdev_id bits from a previous attach remain set when
the same link slot is reused with a different vdev_id. In this specific
issue, the same link slot is used for vdev_id 0, then vdev_id 1, then
vdev_id 0 again, the OR yields tcl_metadata == 0x9, which encodes
vdev_id 1 in the HTT_TCL_META_DATA_VDEV_ID field even though
ti.vdev_id is 0. Firmware then routes the EAPOL frame to the wrong
vdev and the AP never receives message 2.

Use plain assignment instead of |= so the field is fully recomputed
from the current arvif on every attach.

Tested-on: WCN7850 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HMT.1.1.c7-00108-QCAHMTSWPL_V1.0_V2.0_SILICONZ_UPSTREAM-3

Fixes: af66c7640cf9 ("wifi: ath12k: Refactor ath12k_vif structure")
Signed-off-by: Baochen Qiang <baochen.qiang@oss.qualcomm.com>
Reviewed-by: Rameshkumar Sundaram <rameshkumar.sundaram@oss.qualcomm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260609-ath12k-fix-eapol-tcl-metadata-v1-1-d47e6f90d4ee@oss.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <jeff.johnson@oss.qualcomm.com>

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