netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net sched actions: decrement module reference count after table flush.

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:10:33 -0500
From:   Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net sched actions: decrement module reference count after table flush.

Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com> wrote:
>> When tc actions are loaded as a module and no actions have been installed,
>> flushing them would result in actions removed from the memory, but modules
>> reference count not being decremented, so that the modules would not be
>> unloaded.

[...]

> Fixes commit f97017cdefefdb6a0e19266024b0c6f9fd411eeb ?

Yes, exactly.

> Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

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Roman Mashak