diff --git a/net/sched/act_ife.c b/net/sched/act_ife.c
index 141a06eeb1e5..e87cd81315e1 100644
--- a/net/sched/act_ife.c
+++ b/net/sched/act_ife.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int ife_tlv_meta_encode(void *skbdata, u16 attrtype, u16 dlen, const void *dval)
 	u32 *tlv = (u32 *)(skbdata);
 	u16 totlen = nla_total_size(dlen);	/*alignment + hdr */
 	char *dptr = (char *)tlv + NLA_HDRLEN;
-	u32 htlv = attrtype << 16 | totlen;
+	u32 htlv = attrtype << 16 | dlen;
 
 	*tlv = htonl(htlv);
 	memset(dptr, 0, totlen - NLA_HDRLEN);
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ife_release_meta_gen);
 
 int ife_validate_meta_u32(void *val, int len)
 {
-	if (len == 4)
+	if (len == sizeof(u32))
 		return 0;
 
 	return -EINVAL;
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ife_validate_meta_u32);
 
 int ife_validate_meta_u16(void *val, int len)
 {
-	/* length will include padding */
-	if (len == NLA_ALIGN(2))
+	/* length will not include padding */
+	if (len == sizeof(u16))
 		return 0;
 
 	return -EINVAL;
@@ -652,12 +652,14 @@ static int tcf_ife_decode(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a,
 		u8 *tlvdata = (u8 *)tlv;
 		u16 mtype = tlv->type;
 		u16 mlen = tlv->len;
+		u16 alen;
 
 		mtype = ntohs(mtype);
 		mlen = ntohs(mlen);
+		alen = NLA_ALIGN(mlen);
 
-		if (find_decode_metaid(skb, ife, mtype, (mlen - 4),
-				       (void *)(tlvdata + 4))) {
+		if (find_decode_metaid(skb, ife, mtype, (mlen - NLA_HDRLEN),
+				       (void *)(tlvdata + NLA_HDRLEN))) {
 			/* abuse overlimits to count when we receive metadata
 			 * but dont have an ops for it
 			 */
@@ -666,8 +668,8 @@ static int tcf_ife_decode(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tc_action *a,
 			ife->tcf_qstats.overlimits++;
 		}
 
-		tlvdata += mlen;
-		ifehdrln -= mlen;
+		tlvdata += alen;
+		ifehdrln -= alen;
 		tlv = (struct meta_tlvhdr *)tlvdata;
 	}