While looking for a possible reason of bugzilla report on HTB oops:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12858
I found the code in htb_delete calling htb_destroy_class on zero
refcount is very misleading: it can suggest this is a common path, and
destroy is called under sch_tree_lock. Actually, this can never happen
like this because before deletion cops->get() is done, and after
delete a class is still used by tclass_notify. The class destroy is
always called from cops->put(), so without sch_tree_lock.

This doesn't mean much now (since 2.6.27) because all vulnerable calls
were moved from htb_destroy_class to htb_delete, but there was a bug
in older kernels. The same change is done for other classful scheds,
which, it seems, didn't have similar locking problems here.
Reported-by: Nm0sia <m0sia@m0sia.ru>
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

drr_change_class lacks a check for NULL of tca[TCA_OPTIONS], so oops
is possible.
Reported-by: NDenys Fedoryschenko <denys@visp.net.lb>
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The functions gen_new_estimator and gen_replace_estimator can return
errors, but they were being ignored.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Jarek Poplawski points out:

If all child qdiscs of sch_drr are non-work-conserving (e.g. sch_tbf)
drr_dequeue() will busy-loop waiting for skbs instead of leaving the
job for a watchdog. Checking for list_empty() in each loop isn't
necessary either, because this can never be true except the first time.

Using non-work-conserving qdiscs as children of DRR makes no sense,
simply bail out in that case.
Reported-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

The use of xchg() hasn't been necessary since 2.2.something when proper
locking was added to packet schedulers.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Add classful DRR scheduler as a more flexible replacement for SFQ.

The main difference to the algorithm described in "Efficient Fair Queueing
using Deficit Round Robin" is that this implementation doesn't drop packets
from the longest queue on overrun because its classful and limits are
handled by each individual child qdisc.
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>