From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 043d2acf57227db1fdaaa620b2a420acfaa56d6e upstream. Otherwise the module reference counter is leaked. Fixes b9703ed44ffb ("netfilter: nf_tables: support for adding new devices to an existing netdev chain") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -2664,6 +2664,8 @@ static int nf_tables_updchain(struct nft nft_trans_basechain(trans) = basechain; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&nft_trans_chain_hooks(trans)); list_splice(&hook.list, &nft_trans_chain_hooks(trans)); + if (nla[NFTA_CHAIN_HOOK]) + module_put(hook.type->owner); nft_trans_commit_list_add_tail(ctx->net, trans);