diff --git a/include/net/pkt_cls.h b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
index 70ca2437740e41284d7b40b5c202d85fc2e6668b..8826747ef83e616156092f311282c4785621d923 100644
--- a/include/net/pkt_cls.h
+++ b/include/net/pkt_cls.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct tcf_exts {
 	__u32	type; /* for backward compat(TCA_OLD_COMPAT) */
 	int nr_actions;
 	struct tc_action **actions;
+	struct net *net;
 #endif
 	/* Map to export classifier specific extension TLV types to the
 	 * generic extensions API. Unsupported extensions must be set to 0.
@@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ static inline int tcf_exts_init(struct tcf_exts *exts, int action, int police)
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
 	exts->type = 0;
 	exts->nr_actions = 0;
+	exts->net = NULL;
 	exts->actions = kcalloc(TCA_ACT_MAX_PRIO, sizeof(struct tc_action *),
 				GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!exts->actions)
@@ -117,6 +119,28 @@ static inline int tcf_exts_init(struct tcf_exts *exts, int action, int police)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* Return false if the netns is being destroyed in cleanup_net(). Callers
+ * need to do cleanup synchronously in this case, otherwise may race with
+ * tc_action_net_exit(). Return true for other cases.
+ */
+static inline bool tcf_exts_get_net(struct tcf_exts *exts)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
+	exts->net = maybe_get_net(exts->net);
+	return exts->net != NULL;
+#else
+	return true;
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline void tcf_exts_put_net(struct tcf_exts *exts)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT
+	if (exts->net)
+		put_net(exts->net);
+#endif
+}
+
 static inline void tcf_exts_to_list(const struct tcf_exts *exts,
 				    struct list_head *actions)
 {
diff --git a/net/sched/cls_api.c b/net/sched/cls_api.c
index b2d31074548724a3b59defbcd827d6538ac9bea6..ecbb019efcbd310dd1caaaf336d2db2b523713dd 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_api.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_api.c
@@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ int tcf_exts_validate(struct net *net, struct tcf_proto *tp, struct nlattr **tb,
 				exts->actions[i++] = act;
 			exts->nr_actions = i;
 		}
+		exts->net = net;
 	}
 #else
 	if ((exts->action && tb[exts->action]) ||