On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> When application fails to pass flags in netlink TLV when replacing
> existing skbmod action, the kernel will leak refcnt:
>
> $ tc actions get action skbmod index 1
> total acts 0
>
> action order 0: skbmod pipe set smac 00:11:22:33:44:55
> index 1 ref 1 bind 0
>
> For example, at this point a buggy application replaces the action with
> index 1 with new smac 00:aa:22:33:44:55, it fails because of zero flags,
> however refcnt gets bumped:
>
> $ tc actions get actions skbmod index 1
> total acts 0
>
> action order 0: skbmod pipe set smac 00:11:22:33:44:55
> index 1 ref 2 bind 0
> $
>
> Tha patch fixes this by calling tcf_idr_release() on existing actions.
>
> Fixes: 86da71b57383d ("net_sched: Introduce skbmod action")
> Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
