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But its guard is inverted: it skips policies with prefixlen <\nthreshold and preallocates for the rest.\n\nprefixlen < threshold is exactly when policy_hash_bysel() returns NULL and\nthe reinsert takes the allocating xfrm_policy_inexact_insert() path. So the\nloop preallocates for the exact policies (which never allocate) and skips\nthe inexact ones, whose bin/node is then allocated GFP_ATOMIC during\nreinsert. On failure the error path only WARN_ONCE()s and continues,\nleaving a poisoned bydst node; the next rebuild's hlist_del_rcu()\ndereferences LIST_POISON2 and takes a GPF. 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