diff --git a/include/net/act_api.h b/include/net/act_api.h
index 87214927314a1ed2f084b43b4e227263f2079225..414c1de11f397e76c3aae9df7b1ba4c33ae4e09f 100644
--- a/include/net/act_api.h
+++ b/include/net/act_api.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ int tcf_idr_create_from_flags(struct tc_action_net *tn, u32 index,
 			      struct nlattr *est, struct tc_action **a,
 			      const struct tc_action_ops *ops, int bind,
 			      u32 flags);
+void tcf_idr_insert_many(struct tc_action *actions[]);
 void tcf_idr_cleanup(struct tc_action_net *tn, u32 index);
 int tcf_idr_check_alloc(struct tc_action_net *tn, u32 *index,
 			struct tc_action **a, int bind);
diff --git a/net/sched/act_api.c b/net/sched/act_api.c
index f66417d5d2c3130e570f71276ba1b972110d9e10..960af164d0e15f1b6fa0bea95e56da43e2d8b666 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_api.c
@@ -888,7 +888,7 @@ static const struct nla_policy tcf_action_policy[TCA_ACT_MAX + 1] = {
 	[TCA_ACT_HW_STATS]	= NLA_POLICY_BITFIELD32(TCA_ACT_HW_STATS_ANY),
 };
 
-static void tcf_idr_insert_many(struct tc_action *actions[])
+void tcf_idr_insert_many(struct tc_action *actions[])
 {
 	int i;
 
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index 838b3fd94d77683cf3164734300cf5d7b5631c47..babb5f2f1a893466039bf74cf7b9e1070b4efcbc 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -3065,6 +3065,7 @@ int tcf_exts_validate(struct net *net, struct tcf_proto *tp, struct nlattr **tb,
 			act->type = exts->type = TCA_OLD_COMPAT;
 			exts->actions[0] = act;
 			exts->nr_actions = 1;
+			tcf_idr_insert_many(exts->actions);
 		} else if (exts->action && tb[exts->action]) {
 			int err;