Re: patch2: del/get byid

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2005-30-04 at 10:47 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:35:57PM -0400, jamal wrote:
> >
> > > 1) You find delpol using xfrm_policy_byid/xfrm_policy_bysel.
> > 
> > Which increments the refcnt
> 
> Refcnt prevents the policy from being freed.  It doesn't prevent it
> from being deleted from the list.  Only the list lock can do that.
> 

Yes, of course. Look at the code carefuly,  the delpol is already
_unlinked_ when i call xfrm_policy_kill();-> 
If it wasnt so none of those tests would have worked; infact in my first
30 seconds of testing i discovered that when i listed after
an update;->

cheers,
jamal