netdev - Re: [patch net] net: sched: fix memleak for chain zero

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Date:   Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:18:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        kubakici@...pl, mlxsw@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [patch net] net: sched: fix memleak for chain zero

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Wed,  6 Sep 2017 13:14:19 +0200

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> There's a memleak happening for chain 0. The thing is, chain 0 needs to
> be always present, not created on demand. Therefore tcf_block_get upon
> creation of block calls the tcf_chain_create function directly. The
> chain is created with refcnt == 1, which is not correct in this case and
> causes the memleak. So move the refcnt increment into tcf_chain_get
> function even for the case when chain needs to be created.
> 
> Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
> Fixes: 5bc1701881e3 ("net: sched: introduce multichain support for filters")
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

This doesn't apply cleanly any more, please respin.

Thanks Jiri.