psock's hold on the looked up socket isn't dropped until sk_psock_drop() -> queue_rcu_work() -> sk_psock_destroy() runs, which happens only after the entry is unlinked and an RCU grace period elapses. Since the lookup runs under RCU, a non-NULL result guarantees sk_refcnt >= 1: refcount_inc_not_zero() can never fail here. Use sock_hold() instead. Signed-off-by: Michal Luczaj <mhal@rbox.co> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260813-sockmap-lookup-get-ref-v1-2-31f5d55f44ac@rbox.co