From: Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 10:55:09 -0400

> When application fails to pass flags in netlink TLV for a new skbedit action,
> the kernel results in the following oops:
 ...
> The caller calls action's ->init() and passes pointer to "struct tc_action 
> *a",
> which later may be initialized to point at the existing action, otherwise
> "struct tc_action *a" is still invalid, and therefore dereferencing it is an
> error as happens in tcf_idr_release, where refcnt is decremented.
> 
> So in case of missing flags tcf_idr_release must be called only for
> existing actions.
> 
> v2:
>     - prepare patch for net tree
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

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