netdev - Re: [PATCH linux 2/2] net sched actions: fix refcount decrement on error

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Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:39:43 -0400
From:   Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
To:     Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@...xmox.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux 2/2] net sched actions: fix refcount decrement on error

Wolfgang Bumiller <w.bumiller@...xmox.com> writes:

> If memory allocation for nla_memdup_cookie() fails
> module_put has to be guarded by the same condition as it was
> before the TCA_ACT_COOKIE has been added as stated in the
> comment afterwards:
>

What if a new entry has been created, and a_o->init returns
ACT_P_CREATED, but cookie allocation fails, do we not remove module
reference count?

[...]

>  		if (cklen > TC_COOKIE_MAX_SIZE) {
> -			err = -EINVAL;
>  			tcf_hash_release(a, bind);
> -			goto err_mod;
> +			if (err != ACT_P_CREATED)
> +				module_put(a_o->owner);
> +			err = -EINVAL;
> +			goto err_out;
>  		}
>  
>  		if (nla_memdup_cookie(a, tb) < 0) {
> -			err = -ENOMEM;
>  			tcf_hash_release(a, bind);
> -			goto err_mod;
> +			if (err != ACT_P_CREATED)
> +				module_put(a_o->owner);
> +			err = -ENOMEM;
> +			goto err_out;
>  		}
>  	}