[PATCH 1/2] wpa_supplicant: Handle randomization changes for same ESS

Andrzej Ostruszka amo at semihalf.com
Thu Dec 15 07:39:44 PST 2022


Firstly apologies for the delayed reply.

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 07:16:18PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > On 5. Dec 2022, at 19.04, Andrzej Ostruszka <amo at semihalf.com> wrote:
[...]
> 
> For cases where a previously used MAC address is restored
> (whether a globally unique one or a per-ESS random one) for connection
> purposes, the PMKSA cache entries should not really be removed since
> use of the same PMKID does not reveal more than use of the same MAC
> address about the device and wpa_supplicant uses an entry for PMKSA
> caching only if the currently used address matches the one that was
> used to generate the PMKSA.

Got it.  I was just worried about some corner cases like e.g. user used
policy/style 3 but then decided to turn it off and we are now
reconnecting to the same ESS and want to restore hardware address.

Regards
Andrzej Ostruszka



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