[PATCH] Hostapd does not update WPS credentials on SIGHUP

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, at 19:14, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 01:46:57PM +0300, Dmitry Koroban wrote:
> > Faced this issue on v2.6, but 2.10 seems to have it too.
> > Steps to reproduce:
> > 1. Start hostapd with WPS enabled
> > 2. Change passphrase in hostapd.conf
> > 3. Send SIGHUP to hostapd
> > 4. Try to connect client using wps_pbc
> > 5. Client receives old passphrase and cannot connect
 
> There is a call to hostapd_update_wps() just before this context and
> that function is the place to update whatever needs to be updated for
> WPS. It would be cleaner to do this type of restarting of WPS there in
> case WPS was started before reconfiguration instead of hardcoding
> deinit/init to happen after that update function is executed.

Has there been any follow-up on this, maybe an alternative implementation? I don’t see anything on the mailing list, but maybe I’m looking in a wrong place?

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Cheers,
  Andrej