Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: remove instance when test failed

[Herbert Xu]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 05:17:13PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote:
>
> Wpuldn't crypto_del_alg suffer from the same issue? I see that the cra_refcnt 
> is checked. But I guess there would be the same kind of race?

You're quite right.  It too needs to take a ref count on the
algorithm in crypto_alg_match before releasing the mutex.

Cheers,
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