netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: cls_u32: fix refcount leak in the error path of u32

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Date:   Fri, 20 Dec 2019 09:57:19 -0500
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] net/sched: cls_u32: fix refcount leak in the
 error path of u32_change()

On 2019-12-20 9:04 a.m., Vlad Buslov wrote:
> 

> Hi Jamal,
> 
> Yes, I think the patch would work. However, we don't really need the
> flags check, if we are going to implement the new ops->delete_empty()
> callback because it can work like this:
> 
> if (!tp->ops->delete_empty) {
>     tp->deleting = true;
>     return tp->deleting;
> } else {
>    return tp->ops->delete_empty(tp);
> }
> 
> WDYT?

Looks reasonable - we kill two birds with one stone.
We'd need to revert the patch David took in.

cheers,
jamal