xfrm: remove policy lock when accessing policy->walk.dead
All of the code considers ->dead as a hint that the cached policy needs to get refreshed. The read side can just drop the read lock without any side effects. The write side needs to make sure that it's written only exactly once. Only possible race is at xfrm_policy_kill(). This is fixed by checking result of __xfrm_policy_unlink() when needed. It will always succeed if the policy object is looked up from the hash list (so some checks are removed), but it needs to be checked if we are trying to unlink policy via a reference (appropriate checks added). Since policy->walk.dead is written exactly once, it no longer needs to be protected with a write lock. Signed-off-by: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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