[PATCH 5/8] WPS: Select only correct AP following provisioning
Eyal Shapira
eyal
Mon Dec 23 13:35:36 PST 2013
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:03:27PM +0200, Arik Nemtsov wrote:
>> If there are other saved enabled networks a scan following
>> a successful WPS provisioing may connect to one of those
>> instead of the AP with which the provisioning was just done.
>> Avoid that by allowing only selection of a scan result with
>> a matching bssid to the WPS AP. This will be limited to a number
>> of scans following WPS provisioing using the same counter
>> wpa_s->after_wps used to optimize scan frequency post provisioning.
>
> Are you trying to address selection of the same BSS here? Different
> networks (SSID) should already be handled by other network blocks
> getting disabled temporarily. I'm not sure that I would agree with the
> connection having to be with the same BSS, though, so I would like to
> understand why this change would be needed.
>
Sorry for the noise. Please drop this.
It's an old patch being upstreamed only now. The problem it fixes was
already fixed differently in
ec947ff "WPS: Reenable the networks disabled during wpa_wpas_reassoc"
as you've indicated.
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