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 (file)
--- 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;
 }