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ipfw: remove locking workarounds in the table code
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Authored by glebius on Jan 7 2026, 5:41 PM.
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Summary

Before the "upper half lock" became sleepable the table manipulation code
needed sophisticated workarounds to recover from races, where the lock is
temporarily dropped to do malloc(M_WAITOK). Remove all these workarounds
as they are no longer needed.

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