Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Chris Madden wrote:
> 
>>Ok, I replaced ingress_lock with queue_lock in ing_filter and it died in
>>the same place.  Trace below (looks to be substantively the same)...
>>
>>If I am reading tc_ctl_tfilter correctly, we are adding our new
>>tcf_proto to the end of the list, and it is getting used before the
>>change function is getting executed on it.   Locking the ingress_lock in
>>qdisc_lock_tree ( in addition to the extant queue_lock )seems to have
>>the same effect; I can get  a traceback from that if its useful.
> 
> 
> 
> The problem is that some classifiers (like basic, fw and route)
> implement empty ->init functions, although fw and route properly
> deal with it in their classification functions. The ->init function
> should allocate and initalize tp->root, which basic fails to do.
> If you give me a few hours I'll cook up a patch for this.


Actually its only cls_basic thats broken, in case of route and fw
its intentional for backwards-compatibility.

Can you try this patch please?

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_basic.c b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
index fad08e5..ed788d0 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_basic.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_basic.c
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ static void basic_put(struct tcf_proto *
 
 static int basic_init(struct tcf_proto *tp)
 {
+       struct basic_head *head;
+
+       head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (head == NULL)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
+       tp->root = head;
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -175,16 +182,6 @@ static int basic_change(struct tcf_proto
                return basic_set_parms(tp, f, base, tb, tca[TCA_RATE-1]);
        }
 
-       err = -ENOBUFS;
-       if (head == NULL) {
-               head = kzalloc(sizeof(*head), GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (head == NULL)
-                       goto errout;
-
-               INIT_LIST_HEAD(&head->flist);
-               tp->root = head;
-       }
-
        f = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (f == NULL)
                goto errout;

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