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    [IPSEC] xfrm: Undo afinfo lock proliferation · 546be240
    Herbert Xu authored
    
    
    The number of locks used to manage afinfo structures can easily be reduced
    down to one each for policy and state respectively.  This is based on the
    observation that the write locks are only held by module insertion/removal
    which are very rare events so there is no need to further differentiate
    between the insertion of modules like ipv6 versus esp6.
    
    The removal of the read locks in xfrm4_policy.c/xfrm6_policy.c might look
    suspicious at first.  However, after you realise that nobody ever takes
    the corresponding write lock you'll feel better :)
    
    As far as I can gather it's an attempt to guard against the removal of
    the corresponding modules.  Since neither module can be unloaded at all
    we can leave it to whoever fixes up IPv6 unloading :)
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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