Hi, I was looking into some test failures we were seeing recently for the NetworkManager P2P tests. As it turns out, these tests fail because there is a mismatch in the BSSID that the P2P client expects from the P2P GO. The reason for this mismatch is that udev changes the MAC address of the p2p device that wpa_supplicant creates when it becomes group owner. wpa_supplicant reports the MAC as assigned by the kernel, then udev modifies it. At that point we have a mismatch between the MAC that the GO is operating on and the one that was reported to the client earlier and the client ends up ignoring all probe responses. I have opened an upstream systemd issue about this https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/13642 and it seems like they are saying that wpa_supplicant should make sure it waits for udev to be done. I guess this would require that wpa_supplicant uses libudev to wait for the ADD event from udev before trying to do anything with the newly created interface. Any thoughts? Should wpa_supplicant be fixed to wait for udev? Benjamin
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