[PATCH] Interworking: Re-trigger scan if no connect attempt is done

Jouni Malinen j at w1.fi
Mon Jun 2 08:13:00 EDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:25:44AM +0200, Mikael Kanstrup wrote:
> Then configure a network and associate to it. Go out of AP range (or
> turn AP off). AP is kept cached in scan results until aging algorithm
> removes them later on. Supplicant tries to associate a number of times
> before the network is marked as temporarily disabled. After this
> interworking kicks in and finds the just disabled network as a
> candidate to connect to (through function
> interworking_find_network_match) but decides not to connect to it
> (auto select disabled). Now no scan timer is setup. The patch solves
> this case.

Ah, interesting. I used a bit different mechanism to trigger this in my
testing (use same SSID but different security parameters), but anyway,
the end result is same with the key being in the two different places
looking at scan results doing a different determination on possible
matches.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA


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