4.20-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 6191da98062d25276a3b88fb2a94dcbcfb3ea65d ]

when act_skbedit was converted to use RCU in the data plane, we added an
error path, but we forgot to drop the action refcount in case of failure
during a 'replace' operation:

 # tc actions add action skbedit ptype otherhost pass index 100
 # tc action show action skbedit
 total acts 1

         action order 0: skbedit  ptype otherhost pass
          index 100 ref 1 bind 0
 # tc actions replace action skbedit ptype otherhost drop index 100
 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory
 We have an error talking to the kernel
 # tc action show action skbedit
 total acts 1

         action order 0: skbedit  ptype otherhost pass
          index 100 ref 2 bind 0

Ensure we call tcf_idr_release(), in case 'params_new' allocation failed,
also when the action is being replaced.

Fixes: c749cdda9089 ("net/sched: act_skbedit: don't use spinlock in the data 
path")
Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcara...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sched/act_skbedit.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sched/act_skbedit.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_skbedit.c
@@ -189,8 +189,7 @@ static int tcf_skbedit_init(struct net *
 
        params_new = kzalloc(sizeof(*params_new), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (unlikely(!params_new)) {
-               if (ret == ACT_P_CREATED)
-                       tcf_idr_release(*a, bind);
+               tcf_idr_release(*a, bind);
                return -ENOMEM;
        }
 


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