netdev - Re: [Patch net] act_mirred: avoid calling tcf_hash

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Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2015 15:25:02 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] act_mirred: avoid calling tcf_hash_release() when binding

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net> wrote:
> Did you test all variants on this?
>
> I.e. what happens when you replace an existing one, I think the
> refcnt should also be dropped here. It looks like we only drop
> it, in case we tried to add an action to an already existing index ...
>

Yeah, clearly the replace case is anti-pattern too, like you showed.

But that is a different bug, right? Since 'bind' is independent of
'replace'. As in $subject, my patch only fixes the binding case.
I will send a following patch to fix replace case.
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