On 1/6/20 9:36 PM, Jouni Malinen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:21:05PM +0100, Markus Theil wrote:
wpa_supplicant now uses the l2_packet socket only to obtain the local
device MAC address. Future patches may split this out.
This cannot be done before patch 2/3 and based on the test failure I
noticed with wpas_ctrl_ipaddr, it looks like this change cannot really
be done even with patch 2/3. It looks like it is safe to leave the
l2_packet socket open even if EAPOL RX happens through driver_nl80211,
but I guess it would save some resources if this would not be needed.
Anyway, the more critical issue is in getting patch 2/3 into a state
where it does not break any of the test cases.
Ok, then I drop this patch for now and try to get 2/3 to work in all
test cases. Leaving the l2 socket open should do no harm in my opinion.
After 2/3 works, I may add some helper functions for getting IP
addresses and MAC addresses without leaving the socket permanently open,
but getting patch 2 in a working state has of course higher priority.
Markus
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