Send duplicated hosts as dead hosts to ospd, to adjust scan progress …

…calculation.

Duplicated hosts are removed from the list and ospd-openvas
needs to know that less hosts will be scanned, for the scan progress
calculation. Sent the amount of duplicated hosts as dead hosts to not
be taken in account.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ### Fixed
 - Fork vhosts before creating the socket.[#576](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas/pull/576)
 - Check if another forked child has already added the same vhost. [#581](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas/pull/581)
+- Send duplicated hosts as dead hosts to ospd, to adjust scan progress calculation. [#586](https://github.com/greenbone/openvas/pull/586)
 
 [20.08]: https://github.com/greenbone/openvas/compare/v20.8.0...openvas-20.08
 

src/attack.c

@@ -1064,6 +1064,14 @@ attack_network (struct scan_globals *globals)
 
   hosts = gvm_hosts_new (hostlist);
   unresolved = gvm_hosts_resolve (hosts);
+
+  /* Duplicated hosts are removed from the list and ospd-openvas
+     needs to know that less hosts will be scanned, for the scan progress
+     calculation. Sent the amount of duplicated hosts as dead hosts to not
+     be taken in account. */
+  if (gvm_hosts_duplicated (hosts))
+    send_dead_hosts_to_ospd_openvas (gvm_hosts_duplicated (hosts));
+
   while (unresolved)
     {
       g_warning ("Couldn't resolve hostname '%s'", (char *) unresolved->data);