tcf_act_police_init() can fail after the idr has been successfully reserved (e.g., qdisc_get_rtab() may return NULL). When this happens, subsequent attempts to configure a police rule using the same idr value systematiclly fail with -ENOSPC:
# tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory We have an error talking to the kernel # tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device We have an error talking to the kernel # tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device ... Fix this in the error path of tcf_act_police_init(), calling tcf_idr_release() in place of tcf_idr_cleanup(). Fixes: 65a206c01e8e ("net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR") Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com> --- net/sched/act_police.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/sched/act_police.c b/net/sched/act_police.c index 95d3c9097b25..faebf82b99f1 100644 --- a/net/sched/act_police.c +++ b/net/sched/act_police.c @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static int tcf_act_police_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, qdisc_put_rtab(P_tab); qdisc_put_rtab(R_tab); if (ret == ACT_P_CREATED) - tcf_idr_cleanup(*a, est); + tcf_idr_release(*a, bind); return err; } -- 2.14.3