Hello,

syzbot has tested the proposed patch and the reproducer did not trigger  
crash:

Reported-and-tested-by:  
syzbot+10005f4292fc9cc89de7@syzkaller.appspotmail.com

Note: the tag will also help syzbot to understand when the bug is fixed.

Tested on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf.git/master  
commit
de526f401284e1638d4c97cb5a4c292ac3f37655 (Mon Feb 12 16:11:48 2018 +0000)
netfilter: xt_hashlimit: fix lock imbalance

compiler: gcc (GCC) 7.1.1 20170620
Patch is attached.
Kernel config is attached.


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