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

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Date:   Sun, 26 Feb 2017 21:29:21 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mrv@...atatu.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net sched actions: decrement module reference
 count after table flush.

From: Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 11:00:32 -0500

> 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.
...
> Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.