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Davide Caratti committed 5bf7f8185f7
net/sched: fix idr leak in the error path of tcf_act_police_init() tcf_act_police_init() can fail after the idr has been successfully reserved (e.g., qdisc_get_rtab() may return NULL). When this happens, subsequent attempts to configure a police rule using the same idr value systematiclly fail with -ENOSPC: # tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory We have an error talking to the kernel # tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device We have an error talking to the kernel # tc action add action police rate 1000 burst 1000 drop index 100 RTNETLINK answers: No space left on device ... Fix this in the error path of tcf_act_police_init(), calling tcf_idr_release() in place of tcf_idr_cleanup(). Fixes: 65a206c01e8e ("net/sched: Change act_api and act_xxx modules to use IDR") Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>