wpa_supplicant: why is BSS blacklisted twice ?

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 03:08:58PM +0000, Jean Pierre TOSONI wrote:
> Reading the code in wpa_supplicant.c, in function wpas_connection_failed(),
> I see that a BSS may be blacklisted twice in a row.
> 
> This happens if another AP is known for the same network, resulting in the
> blacklist count being directly set to 2.
> 
> So I just wonder why it is needed to blacklist twice? Anybody knows?

The comments in that function explain the high level reason for this.
The matching code is in wpa_scan_res_match() for determining when to
consider a BSS blacklisted where the default behavior is to require at
least count 2 if multiple networks are enabled.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA