On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> When tc actions are loaded as a module and no actions have been installed,
> flushing them would result in actions removed from the memory, but modules
> reference count not being decremented, so that the modules would not be
> unloaded.
>
> Following is example with GACT action:
>
> % sudo modprobe act_gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  0
> %
> % sudo tc actions ls action gact
> %
> % sudo tc actions flush action gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  1
> % sudo tc actions flush action gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  2
> % sudo rmmod act_gact
> rmmod: ERROR: Module act_gact is in use
> ....
>
> After the fix:
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  0
> %
> % sudo tc actions add action pass index 1
> % sudo tc actions add action pass index 2
> % sudo tc actions add action pass index 3
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  3
> %
> % sudo tc actions flush action gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  0
> %
> % sudo tc actions flush action gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> act_gact               16384  0
> % sudo rmmod act_gact
> % lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by
> %
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Mashak <m...@mojatatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com>

Fixes commit f97017cdefefdb6a0e19266024b0c6f9fd411eeb ?

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>

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