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| author | Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> | 2006-03-20 13:44:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> | 2006-03-20 13:44:08 -0500 |
| commit | f344f6df4b2baa3e5c553c461735dfaf92f44be7 (patch) | |
| tree | bf8acb09763c5f5f87d8c23047b8ecbb826dd385 /net | |
| parent | fb374d24f225f38f13dbffb65dd7ec72daf08dba (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | 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 pseudoflavor, struct rpc_clnt *clnt) 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; } |