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 <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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 @@
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;
}
