4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8f67c90ee9148eab3d2b4393c3cf76489b27f87c ] After commit 4e8ddd7f1758 ("net: sched: don't release reference on action overwrite"), the error path of all actions was converted to drop refcount also when the action was being overwritten. But we forgot act_ipt_init(), in case allocation of 'tname' was not successful: # tc action add action xt -j LOG --log-prefix hello index 100 tablename: mangle hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING target: LOG level warning prefix "hello" index 100 # tc action show action xt total acts 1 action order 0: tablename: mangle hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING target LOG level warning prefix "hello" index 100 ref 1 bind 0 # tc action replace action xt -j LOG --log-prefix world index 100 tablename: mangle hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING target: LOG level warning prefix "world" index 100 RTNETLINK answers: Cannot allocate memory We have an error talking to the kernel # tc action show action xt total acts 1 action order 0: tablename: mangle hook: NF_IP_POST_ROUTING target LOG level warning prefix "hello" index 100 ref 2 bind 0 Ensure we call tcf_idr_release(), in case 'tname' allocation failed, also when the action is being replaced. Fixes: 4e8ddd7f1758 ("net: sched: don't release reference on action overwrite") Signed-off-by: Davide Caratti <dcaratti@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/act_ipt.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sched/act_ipt.c +++ b/net/sched/act_ipt.c @@ -199,8 +199,7 @@ err3: err2: kfree(tname); err1: - if (ret == ACT_P_CREATED) - tcf_idr_release(*a, bind); + tcf_idr_release(*a, bind); return err; }