From: Vlad Buslov <vla...@mellanox.com>
Date: Tue,  4 Sep 2018 00:44:42 +0300

> Recent refactoring of add_metainfo() caused use_all_metadata() to add
> metainfo to ife action metalist without taking reference to module. This
> causes warning in module_put called from ife action cleanup function.
> 
> Implement add_metainfo_and_get_ops() function that returns with reference
> to module taken if metainfo was added successfully, and call it from
> use_all_metadata(), instead of calling __add_metainfo() directly.
> 
> Example warning:
 ...
> Fixes: 5ffe57da29b3 ("act_ife: fix a potential deadlock")
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vla...@mellanox.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes V1->V2:
> - fold constants into helper function

Applied to 'net'.

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