This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "net: sched: bump refcount for new action in ACT replace mode" to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: revert-net-sched-bump-refcount-for-new-action-in-act-replace-mode.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4ba86128ba077fbb7d86516ae24ed642e6c3adef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 18:36:02 +0300 Subject: Revert "net: sched: bump refcount for new action in ACT replace mode" From: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4ba86128ba077fbb7d86516ae24ed642e6c3adef upstream. This reverts commit 6855e8213e06efcaf7c02a15e12b1ae64b9a7149. Following commit in series fixes the issue without introducing regression in error rollback of tcf_action_destroy(). Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/act_api.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/sched/act_api.c +++ b/net/sched/act_api.c @@ -1049,9 +1049,6 @@ struct tc_action *tcf_action_init_1(stru if (!name) a->hw_stats = hw_stats; - if (!bind && ovr && err == ACT_P_CREATED) - refcount_set(&a->tcfa_refcnt, 2); - return a; err_out: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vladbu@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/net-sched-fix-err-handler-in-tcf_action_init.patch queue-5.11/revert-net-sched-bump-refcount-for-new-action-in-act-replace-mode.patch queue-5.11/net-sched-fix-action-overwrite-reference-counting.patch