[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ematch: Fix auto-loading of ematch modules." has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ematch: Fix auto-loading of ematch modules.

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt9.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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commit 34eea79e2664b314cab6a30fc582fdfa7a1bb1df upstream.

In tcf_em_validate(), after calling request_module() to load the
kind-specific module, set em->ops to NULL before returning -EAGAIN, so
that module_put() is not called again by tcf_em_tree_destroy().

Signed-off-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki at green-communications.fr>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <cwang at twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/sched/ematch.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/sched/ematch.c b/net/sched/ematch.c
index 3a633debb6df..a2abc449ce8f 100644
--- a/net/sched/ematch.c
+++ b/net/sched/ematch.c
@@ -227,6 +227,7 @@ static int tcf_em_validate(struct tcf_proto *tp,
 				 * to replay the request.
 				 */
 				module_put(em->ops->owner);
+				em->ops = NULL;
 				err = -EAGAIN;
 			}
 #endif