[PATCH v1 2/2] wpa_supplicant: don't force rescan for restricted scans

Vignesh Raman vignesh.raman at collabora.com
Fri Aug 14 01:32:51 PDT 2026


The 6 GHz coverage check forces a rescan whenever a scan doesn't
cover 6 GHz, even when the scan was deliberately restricted to one
channel. This reintroduced a redundant rescan.

Skip forcing the rescan when the last scan was explicitly restricted.

Signed-off-by: Vignesh Raman <vignesh.raman at collabora.com>
---
 wpa_supplicant/events.c           | 10 ++++++++--
 wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_i.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/events.c b/wpa_supplicant/events.c
index 6928156a0..94cc1e932 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/events.c
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/events.c
@@ -6054,8 +6054,12 @@ void wpa_supplicant_update_channel_list(struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s,
 			wpa_dbg(ifs, MSG_INFO,
 				"Channel list changed: 6 GHz was enabled");
 
-			/* Only force a rescan if the 6 GHz band has not been scanned yet. */
-			if (!ifs->last_scan_covered_6ghz)
+			/*
+			 * Only force a rescan if the 6 GHz band has not been scanned yet,
+			 * and the last scan was not explicitly restricted to specific channels
+			 * by the caller.
+			 */
+			if (!ifs->last_scan_covered_6ghz && !ifs->last_scan_was_restricted)
 				ifs->crossed_6ghz_dom = true;
 		}
 	}
@@ -7065,6 +7069,8 @@ void wpa_supplicant_event(void *ctx, enum wpa_event_type event,
 					}
 				}
 			}
+
+			wpa_s->last_scan_was_restricted = !wpa_s->last_scan_all_chan;
 		}
 
 		if (!(data && data->scan_info.external_scan) &&
diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_i.h b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_i.h
index dffd6a150..737bce028 100644
--- a/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_i.h
+++ b/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant_i.h
@@ -1696,6 +1696,7 @@ struct wpa_supplicant {
 	bool is_6ghz_enabled;
 	bool crossed_6ghz_dom;
 	bool last_scan_covered_6ghz;
+	bool last_scan_was_restricted;
 	bool last_scan_all_chan;
 	bool last_scan_non_coloc_6ghz;
 	bool support_6ghz;
-- 
2.47.3




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