[PATCH] OWE: Do not scan for transition mode AP with owe_only=1

[Peer, Ilan]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi>
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2023 10:15
> To: Otcheretianski, Andrei <andrei.otcheretianski at intel.com>
> Cc: hostap at lists.infradead.org; Peer, Ilan <ilan.peer at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] OWE: Do not scan for transition mode AP with
> owe_only=1
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 05:21:35PM +0200, Andrei Otcheretianski wrote:
> > As the network block is configured not to allow transition mode.
> 
> I'm not sure how you are interpreting the transition mode to work, but
> owe_only=1 means that the STA will connect only with OWE AKM, i.e., does
> not connect to unencrypted BSSs. However, this function is needed to find
> those BSSs that use OWE AKM. In particular, this is needed when the AP is
> using transition mode since the BSS with OWE AKM uses a hidden SSID in such
> a case. The proposed change here seems to break this.
> 

Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, I misunderstood this. Please drop the patch.

Regards,

Ilan.