Author: Olaf Kirch SUNRPC: Auto-load RPC authentication kernel modules This patch adds a request_module call to rpcauth_create which will try to auto-load the kernel module for the requested authentication flavor. For kernels with modular sunrpc, this reduces the admin overhead for the user. Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- net/sunrpc/auth.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth.c b/net/sunrpc/auth.c index 8d6f1a1..55163af 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth.c @@ -64,14 +64,26 @@ rpcauth_create(rpc_authflavor_t pseudofl struct rpc_authops *ops; u32 flavor = pseudoflavor_to_flavor(pseudoflavor); - if (flavor >= RPC_AUTH_MAXFLAVOR || !(ops = auth_flavors[flavor])) - return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + auth = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if (flavor >= RPC_AUTH_MAXFLAVOR) + goto out; + + /* FIXME - auth_flavors[] really needs an rw lock, + * and module refcounting. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD + if ((ops = auth_flavors[flavor]) == NULL) + request_module("rpc-auth-%u", flavor); +#endif + if ((ops = auth_flavors[flavor]) == NULL) + goto out; auth = ops->create(clnt, pseudoflavor); if (IS_ERR(auth)) return auth; if (clnt->cl_auth) rpcauth_destroy(clnt->cl_auth); clnt->cl_auth = auth; + +out: return auth; }