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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>
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