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authorJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>2013-12-23 08:02:11 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-12-27 12:50:00 -0500
commit1a29321ed045e3aad23c5f7b63036e465ee3093a (patch)
tree8d59b477b4b3fd575dcf33450cfbc7d5e9c3502b /net/sched/act_gact.c
parentc2349758acf1874e4c2b93fe41d072336f1a31d0 (diff)
downloadlinux-1a29321ed045e3aad23c5f7b63036e465ee3093a.tar.gz
net_sched: act: Dont increment refcnt on replace
 This is a bug fix. The existing code tries to kill many
 birds with one stone: Handling binding of actions to
 filters, new actions and replacing of action
 attributes. A simple test case to illustrate:

XXXX
 moja@fe1:~$ sudo tc actions add action drop index 12
 moja@fe1:~$ actions get action gact index 12
 action order 1: gact action drop
  random type none pass val 0
  index 12 ref 1 bind 0
 moja@fe1:~$ sudo tc actions replace action ok index 12
 moja@fe1:~$ actions get action gact index 12
 action order 1: gact action drop
  random type none pass val 0
  index 12 ref 2 bind 0
XXXX

The above shows the refcounf being wrongly incremented on replace.
There are more complex scenarios with binding of actions to filters
that i am leaving out that didnt work as well...

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sched/act_gact.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sched/act_gact.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/sched/act_gact.c b/net/sched/act_gact.c
index 5645a4d32abd..eb9ba60ebab4 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_gact.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_gact.c
@@ -102,10 +102,11 @@ static int tcf_gact_init(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla,
 			return PTR_ERR(pc);
 		ret = ACT_P_CREATED;
 	} else {
-		if (!ovr) {
-			tcf_hash_release(pc, bind, &gact_hash_info);
+		if (bind)/* dont override defaults */
+			return 0;
+		tcf_hash_release(pc, bind, &gact_hash_info);
+		if (!ovr)
 			return -EEXIST;
-		}
 	}
 
 	gact = to_gact(pc);