Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm: policy: Fix doulbe free in xfrm_policy_timer

[Herbert Xu]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 09:41:55AM +0800, YueHaibing wrote:
>
> diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> index dbda08ec566e..ae0689174bbf 100644
> --- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> +++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c
> @@ -434,6 +434,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(xfrm_policy_destroy);
>  
>  static void xfrm_policy_kill(struct xfrm_policy *policy)
>  {
> +	write_lock_bh(&policy->lock);
>  	policy->walk.dead = 1;
>  
>  	atomic_inc(&policy->genid);
> @@ -445,6 +446,7 @@ static void xfrm_policy_kill(struct xfrm_policy *policy)
>  	if (del_timer(&policy->timer))
>  		xfrm_pol_put(policy);
>  
> +	write_unlock_bh(&policy->lock);

Why did you expand the critical section? Can't you just undo the
patch in xfrm_policy_kill?

Cheers,
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