Re: [v2 PATCH] crypto: af_alg - fix use-after-free in af_alg_accept() due to bh_lock_sock()

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On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 12:17:32PM -0300, Mauricio Faria de Oliveira wrote:
>
> Per your knowledge/experience with the crypto subsystem, the changed code
> paths are not hot enough to suffer from such implications?

I don't think replacing a spin-lock with a pair of atomic ops is
going to be too much of an issue.  We can always look at this again
if someone comes up with real numbers of course.

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