diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi_types_generic.h b/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi_types_generic.h
index e995cbc7ad..399c0afb59 100644
--- a/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi_types_generic.h
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/include/esp_wifi_types_generic.h
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ typedef struct {
     uint32_t vht_mu_beamformee_disabled: 1;                       /**< Whether to disable support for operation as an VHT MU beamformee. */
     uint32_t vht_mcs8_enabled: 1;                                 /**< Whether to support VHT-MCS8. The default value is 0. */
     uint32_t reserved2: 19;                                       /**< Reserved for future feature set */
-    uint8_t sae_h2e_identifier[SAE_H2E_IDENTIFIER_LEN];/**< Password identifier for H2E. this needs to be null terminated string */
+    uint8_t sae_h2e_identifier[SAE_H2E_IDENTIFIER_LEN];           /**< Password identifier for H2E. Strings null-terminated (length < SAE_H2E_IDENTIFIER_LEN) or non-null terminated (length = SAE_H2E_IDENTIFIER_LEN) are accepted. Non-null terminated string with 0xFF for full length of SAE_H2E_IDENTIFIER_LEN is not considered a valid identifier */
 } wifi_sta_config_t;
 
 /**
diff --git a/components/esp_wifi/lib b/components/esp_wifi/lib
index 035ed13344..eeab0fa51d 160000
--- a/components/esp_wifi/lib
+++ b/components/esp_wifi/lib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 035ed1334469e131d56a9229e767dbdd32271a33
+Subproject commit eeab0fa51df60a10a0b367e83d6ec72466c9aa79