netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: act_ife: always release ife action on init error

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Date:   Thu, 16 Aug 2018 12:12:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vladbu@...lanox.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sched: act_ife: always release ife
 action on init error

From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:29:56 +0300

> Action init API was changed to always take reference to action, even when
> overwriting existing action. Substitute conditional action release, which
> was executed only if action is newly created, with unconditional release in
> tcf_ife_init() error handling code to prevent double free or memory leak in
> case of overwrite.
> 
> Fixes: 4e8ddd7f1758 ("net: sched: don't release reference on action overwrite")
> Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks.