nl80211: keep awaiting wpa_supplicant scan results on busy response

When wpa_supplicant responds with FAIL-BUSY in response to the SCAN
command, a scan process is already in process. Instead of failing in
this case, simply keep awaiting the result list.

This also significantly speeds up the scan operation in many cases.

Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich <jo@mein.io>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/iwinfo_nl80211.c b/iwinfo_nl80211.c
index 5af3f9f..0e58d43 100644
--- a/iwinfo_nl80211.c
+++ b/iwinfo_nl80211.c
@@ -2471,9 +2471,15 @@ static int nl80211_get_scanlist_wpactl(const char *ifname, char *buf, int *len)
 			tries--;
 		}
 
-		/* got a failure reply */
+		/* scanning already in progress, keep awaiting results */
 		else if (!strcmp(reply, "FAIL-BUSY\n"))
 		{
+			tries--;
+		}
+
+		/* another failure, abort */
+		else if (!strncmp(reply, "FAIL-", 5))
+		{
 			break;
 		}
 	}