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  • PDC commissioning in DeviceCommissioner / AutoCommissioner

    Implement support for PDC commissioning steps in the DeviceCommissioner
    and AutoCommissioner. The new abstraction introduced to handle the
    interaction with the network infrastructure (i.e. with the NETIM cluster
    on a NIM device) is the NetworkIdentityRegistrar. The registrar provides
    the low-level operations for retrieval of the Network Identity and
    registration and unregistration of the Network Client Identity during
    commissioning.

    The DeviceCommissioner gains two new steps (kPDCGetNetworkIdentity and
    kPDCRegisterClientIdentity) that encapsulate those interactions and
    handles roll-back of the client identity if commissioning does not
    succeed. The kWiFiNetworkSetup step is updated to use the PDC variant of
    AddOrUpdateWiFiNetwork as necessary. The commissioner validates that
    both the network and client identities are valid, and that the
    commissionee holds the private key for the client identity.

    Note the two new steps are inserted in the appropriate places in the
    enum (kPDCRegisterClientIdentity inside the kWiFiNetworkSetup ..
    kICDSendStayActive range, and kPDCGetNetworkIdentity before kCleanup),
    so some existing enum values are being renumbered.

  • Implement NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar

    This class implements the NetworkIdentityRegistrar interface expected by
    the DeviceCommissioner by interacting with a Network Identity Management
    cluster server (generally on a NIM device).

  • Implement PDC commissioning support in chip-tool

    This adds --pdc-netim-node-id and --pdc-netim-endpoint-id endpoint
    arguments to existing WiFi commissioning commands. If they are
    specified, a PDC-capable commissionee will be commissioned with PDC
    credentials obtained from the pointed-to Network Infrastructure
    Management cluster server (generally on a NIM device). If the
    commissionee is not PDC-capable, the password parameter will be used as
    before. (The special password value of "-", which is not a valid WiFi
    password, can be used to disable that fallback.)

Testing

New unit tests for all low-level aspects, particular the AutoCommissioner / DeviceCommissioner aspects.
Manual end-to-end testing with the NIM example app (still requires some manual intervention on the AP side due to integration code that is still missing.)

Alongside the definition of CertificateKeyId.
Implement support for PDC commissioning steps in the DeviceCommissioner
and AutoCommissioner. The new abstraction introduced to handle the
interaction with the network infrastructure (i.e. with the NETIM cluster
on a NIM device) is the NetworkIdentityRegistrar. The registrar provides
the low-level operations for retrieval of the Network Identity and
registration and unregistration of the Network Client Identity during
commissioning.

The DeviceCommissioner gains two new steps (kPDCGetNetworkIdentity and
kPDCRegisterClientIdentity) that encapsulate those interactions and
handles roll-back of the client identity if commissioning does not
succeed. The kWiFiNetworkSetup step is updated to use the PDC variant of
AddOrUpdateWiFiNetwork as necessary. The commissioner validates that
both the network and client identities are valid, and that the
commissionee holds the private key for the client identity.

Note the two new steps are inserted in the appropriate places in the
enum (kPDCRegisterClientIdentity inside the kWiFiNetworkSetup ..
kICDSendStayActive range, and kPDCGetNetworkIdentity before kCleanup),
so some existing enum values are being renumbered.

The AutoCommissioner (or other commissioning delegate) is responsible
for orchestration and propagating the step outputs from
CommissioningReports into CommissioningParameters for subsequent steps.

Note that PDC commissioning support is not guarded behind an ifdef,
since commissioners that support Wi-Fi SHOULD support PDC, and there is
currently no supported way to build e.g. a Thread-only commissioner in
any case.
This class implements the NetworkIdentityRegistrar interface expected by
the DeviceCommissioner by interacting with a Network Identity Management
cluster server (generally on a NIM device).
This adds --pdc-netim-node-id and --pdc-netim-endpoint-id endpoint
arguments to existing WiFi commissioning commands. If they are
specified, a PDC-capable commissionee will be commissioned with PDC
credentials obtained from the pointed-to Network Infrastructure
Management cluster server (generally on a NIM device). If the
commissionee is not PDC-capable, the password parameter will be used as
before. (The special password value of "-", which is not a valid WiFi
password, can be used to disable that fallback.)
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This change adds Per-Device Credentials commissioning for Wi-Fi networks. It defines network identity registrar interfaces and NIM operations, adds PDC commissioning stages and reports, verifies possession signatures, and registers client identities. DeviceCommissioner rolls back registrations during failures, cancellation, and shutdown. chip-tool accepts registrar node and endpoint arguments and defers exit during revocation. Tests cover registrar lifecycle, commissioning, validation, retries, and rollback.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant chip-tool
  participant DeviceCommissioner
  participant NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar
  participant Commissionee
  chip-tool->>DeviceCommissioner: Start pairing with PDC credentials
  DeviceCommissioner->>NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar: GetNetworkIdentity
  NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar-->>DeviceCommissioner: Return network identity
  DeviceCommissioner->>Commissionee: Configure Wi-Fi with PDC data
  Commissionee-->>DeviceCommissioner: Return client identity and signature
  DeviceCommissioner->>NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar: RegisterClient
  DeviceCommissioner-->>chip-tool: Complete pairing or defer for rollback
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Commissioning cleanup can falsely report successful revocation after a connection failure, leaving client credentials registered and requiring resolution before merge.

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🟡 Changes recommended

A missing required include for PRIX32 in src/credentials/CHIPCert.h can cause build failures (and there is also a small doc typo to fix).

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Pull request overview

Implements commissioner-side commissioning support for Wi‑Fi Per-Device Credentials (PDC) by introducing a NetworkIdentityRegistrar abstraction, integrating new commissioning stages into AutoCommissioner/DeviceCommissioner, and wiring chip-tool CLI support for NETIM-driven PDC flows.

Changes:

  • Add two new commissioning stages (kPDCGetNetworkIdentity, kPDCRegisterClientIdentity) and associated parameter/report plumbing (network identity, client identity, possession nonce/signature, rollback policy).
  • Implement NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar to drive the Network Identity Management cluster and provide lifecycle/idle-wait semantics.
  • Extend chip-tool pairing commands with --pdc-netim-node-id/--pdc-netim-endpoint-id, plus substantial new unit test coverage for commissioner and registrar behavior.
File summaries
File Description
src/python_testing/TC_CGEN_2_2.py Updates Python test’s hardcoded commissioning stage number to reflect enum renumbering.
src/credentials/CHIPCert.h Adds common logging macros for CertificateKeyId rendering.
src/controller/tests/TestPDCCommissioning.cpp Adds comprehensive unit tests for PDC flows across AutoCommissioner/DeviceCommissioner, including rollback and retry behavior.
src/controller/tests/TestNetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.cpp Adds lifecycle/idle-wait unit tests for NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.
src/controller/tests/TestCommissioningDelegate.cpp Extends commissioning parameter setter/getter tests for new PDC-related fields.
src/controller/tests/TestAutoCommissioner.cpp Adds tests ensuring PDCPossessionNonce buffer constraints and span relocation behavior.
src/controller/tests/DeviceCommissionerTestAccess.h Exposes PDC-specific internal hooks for tests (verification and registration state).
src/controller/tests/BUILD.gn Registers new controller test sources.
src/controller/tests/AutoCommissionerTestAccess.h Exposes additional test accessors used by new PDC tests.
src/controller/NetworkIdentityRegistrar.h Introduces registrar interface used by commissioner for PDC identity query/register/revoke.
src/controller/NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.h Adds concrete registrar implementation interface + idle-wait/shutdown semantics.
src/controller/NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.cpp Implements NETIM-backed registrar operations, cancellation, and idle-wait notification ordering.
src/controller/ControllerOperation.h Introduces reusable controller operation base for CASE-connect + optional invoke lifecycle.
src/controller/ControllerOperation.cpp Implements controller operation connection/invoke cancellation plumbing.
src/controller/CommissioningDelegate.h Adds new stages, WiFiCredentials/CommissioningParameters extensions, and new report variants.
src/controller/CommissioningDelegate.cpp Adds StageToString/MetricKey support for the new PDC stages.
src/controller/CHIPDeviceController.h Adds PDC callbacks, verification, and rollback tracking fields to DeviceCommissioner.
src/controller/CHIPDeviceController.cpp Implements PDC stage behavior, response validation, registrar interactions, and rollback/wait logic.
src/controller/BUILD.gn Wires new controller sources into the build.
src/controller/AutoCommissioner.h Adds PDC buffers and ClearPDCParameters() API.
src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp Implements PDC stage selection, parameter capture/clearing, nonce generation, and retry/cleanup behavior.
src/app/clusters/network-identity-management-server/NetworkIdentityManagementCluster.cpp Removes now-redundant include of the deleted logging header.
src/app/clusters/network-identity-management-server/Logging.h Deletes cluster-local KeyId logging macros (moved to shared credentials header).
src/app/clusters/network-identity-management-server/BUILD.gn Removes Logging.h from the build sources list.
examples/chip-tool/commands/pairing/PairingCommand.h Adds CLI args and state for NETIM-backed PDC registrar lifecycle management.
examples/chip-tool/commands/pairing/PairingCommand.cpp Implements NETIM registrar construction, Wi‑Fi credential selection, and deferred exit until revocation completes.
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🔵 Needs a closer look

src/credentials/CHIPCert.h introduces PRIX32 usage in new logging macros without ensuring the required PRI*/PRIX* format macros header is included, which can cause build failures depending on include order/toolchain.

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src/credentials/CHIPCert.h:38

  • ChipLogFormatKeyId uses PRIX32, but this header does not include a header that guarantees the PRI*/PRIX* format macros are defined. This can break compilation depending on include order/toolchain. Include <inttypes.h> (or <cinttypes>) in this header.
#include <lib/asn1/ASN1.h>
#include <lib/core/CASEAuthTag.h>
#include <lib/core/CHIPConfig.h>
#include <lib/core/CHIPEncoding.h>
#include <lib/core/DataModelTypes.h>
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- Avoid shadowing warnings
- Fix clang-tidy unchecked optional issues
- Suppress false-positive clang-tidy null deref finding
- Ensure mClientIdentityLength has sufficient range
are sure that no client was added. This lets us restrict rollbacks to
indeterminate failures.

This is better than taking the cautious path of always revoking, because
for scenarios like failure to connect to the NIM in the first place it
avoids the rollback trying to establish a session all over again.
Move the endpoint, the invocation lifetime and the Invoke() helper into
NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar's Operation base class, and have
Invoke() report failures via Fail() rather than a handler supplied per
command.

Routing every failure through Fail() gives an operation a single place
to make sense of them, which is what AddClientOperation relies on to
decide whether a failure is determinate, and the Invoke() helper ensures
mCommandSent is tracked correctly.

ControllerInvokeOperationBase was not carrying its weight as an API, and
did not sit that well with the CancelableOperation paradigm (not
starting on Start(), exposing std::function callbacks etc). It's better
left as a private implementation detail of the registrar for now.

No functional change, other than RemoveClientOperation now mapping a
NOT_FOUND onto success wherever it arrives rather than only from the
command response. Nothing else can currently deliver an IM status to
Fail(), so that widening is unreachable today.
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🔵 Needs a closer look

The change set introduces new commissioning stages, rollback/cancellation paths, and cross-component lifecycle semantics (controller ↔ registrar ↔ chip-tool) that warrant final human validation beyond automated review.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

The PDC NetworkConfigResponse validation currently permits an empty clientIdentity, which should be rejected immediately to avoid advancing the flow with an invalid identity.

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src/controller/CHIPDeviceController.cpp:3216

  • ValidatePDCClientIdentityResponse() accepts an empty clientIdentity (present but length 0). That will later fail validation in kPDCRegisterClientIdentity anyway, but failing earlier (in the NetworkConfigResponse handler) avoids progressing the flow with an obviously-invalid identity and keeps the error closer to the root cause.
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907-927: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Remove the written Wi-Fi configuration before restarting the retry.

When kWiFiNetworkSetup succeeds, this branch rewinds to kScanNetworks and clears only PDC parameters. It does not remove the existing Wi-Fi configuration, so a retry for a different network can leave the failed configuration on the commissionee. DeviceCommissioner rolls back the old Network Client Identity before completing the failed attempt, so registration is not blocked. Remove the old configuration and wait for completion before re-entering kScanNetworks.

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In `@src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp` around lines 907 - 927, Update the
IsScanNeeded() retry branch in AutoCommissioner so a successfully completed
kWiFiNetworkSetup removes the written Wi-Fi configuration before restarting at
kScanNetworks. Wait for the removal to complete, then clear PDC parameters and
re-enter the scan stage; preserve the existing error/status handling and avoid
removing configuration for unrelated stages.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/controller/NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.cpp`:
- Line 228: Update the NotFound handling in the relevant Fail() method to map
the error to successful revocation only when CommandSent() confirms RemoveClient
was sent; otherwise preserve the failure path. Add a regression test invoking
FailPendingConnection(CHIP_IM_GLOBAL_STATUS(NotFound)) and verify the client
identity is not treated as successfully revoked.

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In `@src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp`:
- Around line 907-927: Update the IsScanNeeded() retry branch in
AutoCommissioner so a successfully completed kWiFiNetworkSetup removes the
written Wi-Fi configuration before restarting at kScanNetworks. Wait for the
removal to complete, then clear PDC parameters and re-enter the scan stage;
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Comment thread src/controller/NetworkIdentityManagementRegistrar.cpp
clang-tidy didn't like the optional access, but in fact the whole log
was superfluous anyway -- the controller already logs abandoned
revocations with better detail.
This matches what's already enabled for chip_fake_platform tests.
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🟡 Changes recommended

There is a confirmed uninitialized credentials field in the PDC Wi‑Fi commissioning request construction that can send garbage bytes unless the request is value-initialized.

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// The Network Client Identity to register with the NetworkIdentityRegistrar during
// kPDCRegisterClientIdentity, in compact-pdc-identity TLV format.
// The AutoCommissioner populates this from the PDCClientIdentityInfo report returned by kWiFiNetworkSetup.

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Again, not sure we should be documenting AutoCommissioner internals. If the intent is that this is not input to commissioning but rather just used by the commissioner itself internally, let's say that?

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I'd push back on this. GetAttestationElements, GetAttestationSignature, GetPAI, GetDAC, GetNOCChainGenerationParameters, GetNoc, GetIcac, GetIpk and GetAdminSubject are all produced by one stage and consumed by a later one, and all say "In the AutoCommissioner, this is automatically set from the report from the xyz stage". I think of AutoCommissioner as the default commissioning delegate rather than an internal, and this is what an application needs to know about which parameters it still owns when using it. A class comment in AutoCommissioner.h wouldn't be found by anyone looking at these properties. (I think it's somewhat odd that properties are documented on their getters rather than their setters, but that's pre-existing in this class.)

Also it isn't internal state, it's an input to kPDCRegisterClientIdentity. What those other getters have and these didn't is the "This must be set before calling PerformCommissioningStep for the xyz step" line, so I've added that.

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🔵 Needs a closer look

Five unresolved moderate findings affect identity preservation, nonce generation, retry cleanup, and validation.

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src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp:127

  • CommissioningParameters explicitly allows a caller to pre-supply mPDCNetworkIdentity and bypass kPDCGetNetworkIdentity, but this unconditional clear discards that input. The AutoCommissioner therefore cannot honor the documented pre-supplied-identity path. Relocate the supplied span into mNetworkIdentity and restore it after the clear, as is done for the other external-buffer inputs, and cover this bypass path with a test.
    mParams.ClearExternalBufferDependentValues();

src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp:386

  • When a caller supplies the Network Identity, this branch skips kPDCGetNetworkIdentity, but the AutoCommissioner currently generates a random possession nonce only while processing that stage (CommissioningStepFinished around line 1121). With the documented/default case where no nonce was supplied, kWiFiNetworkSetup is then invoked without one and fails with No possession nonce found. Generate the lazy nonce whenever selecting the PDC Wi-Fi setup path, including this bypass path.
                VerifyOrReturnValue(mParams.GetPDCNetworkIdentity().HasValue(), CommissioningStage::kPDCGetNetworkIdentity);

src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp:947

  • When this retry path clears the PDC parameters, DeviceCommissioner still owns the Network Client Identity registration from the failed attempt. The next PDC retry therefore reaches kPDCRegisterClientIdentity with an outstanding registration and is rejected by the single-registration guard; the old identity is only revoked during the eventual cleanup, so the retry cannot commission a new network. Remove the old network configuration and revoke/await that registration before restarting the Wi-Fi flow (or otherwise make the restart path perform that rollback).
                ClearPDCParameters(); // parameters from a failed attempt are no longer valid / useful

src/controller/CHIPDeviceController.cpp:4068

  • Network-identity validation is only performed in OnNetworkIdentityAvailable(). A delegate may instead pre-supply this identity and bypass that stage (as documented in CommissioningDelegate.h), so this path can send an empty or malformed identity in AddOrUpdateWiFiNetwork. Validate params.GetPDCNetworkIdentity() with ValidateChipNetworkIdentity() before placing it in the request.
            request.networkIdentity.Emplace(params.GetPDCNetworkIdentity().Value());

src/controller/CommissioningDelegate.h:798

  • This clears a caller-supplied PDC Network Identity when AutoCommissioner::SetCommissioningParameters() copies its inputs. The public contract for SetPDCNetworkIdentity() explicitly allows a delegate to provide the identity up front and bypass kPDCGetNetworkIdentity; after this clear, that identity is lost, so the AutoCommissioner queries the registrar again (or uses a different identity) instead of the supplied one. Preserve/copy an input identity into mNetworkIdentity before clearing per-attempt state, while still clearing identities generated by prior attempts.
        mPDCNetworkIdentity.ClearValue();
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Copilot AI review requested due to automatic review settings September 11, 2026 01:23

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🔵 Needs a closer look

Four unresolved moderate findings affect PDC configuration, retry cleanup, identity handling, and test fixture lifetime.

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src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp:947

  • This retry path clears the copied PDC parameters but leaves mNetworkClientRegistration populated (and the just-written Wi-Fi configuration in place). On the next attempt, kPDCRegisterClientIdentity reaches the registrar's single-registration guard and fails before another network can be tried. The retry must first coordinate removal of the old Wi-Fi configuration and asynchronous revocation of its client identity.

examples/lighting-app/esp32/sdkconfig_pdc.defaults:23

  • This overlay does not actually enable the Matter PDC feature on ESP32: the code is guarded by CHIP_DEVICE_CONFIG_ENABLE_WIFI_PDC, whose default remains 0, while CHIPDevicePlatformConfig.h has no mapping from CONFIG_ENABLE_WIFI_PDC and the ESP32 component Kconfig/CMake does not define or propagate this symbol. Applying this defaults file therefore leaves PDC support compiled out; add the corresponding Kconfig/platform-to-Matter configuration wiring (or set the project configuration macro through the supported mechanism).
CONFIG_ENABLE_WIFI_PDC=y

src/controller/AutoCommissioner.cpp:190

  • The public contract for PDCNetworkIdentity allows a delegate to provide it up front and bypass kPDCGetNetworkIdentity, but this path clears that value and never relocates it into mNetworkIdentity; only the possession nonce is copied below. As a result, an AutoCommissioner flow with a pre-supplied identity loses it and unnecessarily invokes the registrar (and cannot support the documented bypass). Preserve and copy the supplied identity here.
    // Unlike the CSR nonce above, we only copy a PDC possession nonce that was actually supplied; the
    // fallback to a random value happens lazily in kPDCGetNetworkIdentity, i.e. only once we know we
    // are going to use PDC at all. Leaving mParams without a nonce here is what signals that.

src/controller/tests/TestPDCCommissioning.cpp:1353

  • Because C++ destroys members in reverse declaration order, this fixture destroys mRegistrar before mCommissioner. The deferred-revocation tests intentionally leave a callback installed in the commissioner that points back to the registrar; commissioner destruction can therefore invoke OnRevocationCancelled through the already-destroyed registrar. Declare mRegistrar before mCommissioner so the registrar outlives the callbacks it owns.
    DeviceCommissioner mCommissioner{};
    DeviceCommissionerTestAccess mAccess{ &mCommissioner };
    MockNetworkIdentityRegistrar mRegistrar;
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