Bluetooth: Don't use non-resolvable private address for passive scanning
The usage of non-resovlable private addresses for passive scanning is a bad idea. Passive scanning will not send any SCAN_REQ and thus using your identity address for passive scanning is not a privacy issue. It is important to use the identity address during passive scanning since that is the only way devices using direct advertising will be reported correctly by the controller. This is overlooked detail in the Bluetooth specification that current controllers are not able to report direct advertising events for other than their current address. When remote peers are using direct advertising and scanning is done with non-resolvable private address these devices will not be found. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com>
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