Commit 35bfbc94 authored by Stephen Hemminger's avatar Stephen Hemminger Committed by David S. Miller

[TCP]: Allow autoloading of congestion control via setsockopt.

If user has permision to load modules, then autoload then attempt
autoload of TCP congestion module.
Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent ce7bc3bf
......@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int tcp_set_default_congestion_control(const char *name)
spin_lock(&tcp_cong_list_lock);
ca = tcp_ca_find(name);
#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
if (!ca) {
if (!ca && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) {
spin_unlock(&tcp_cong_list_lock);
request_module("tcp_%s", name);
......@@ -236,9 +236,19 @@ int tcp_set_congestion_control(struct sock *sk, const char *name)
rcu_read_lock();
ca = tcp_ca_find(name);
/* no change asking for existing value */
if (ca == icsk->icsk_ca_ops)
goto out;
#ifdef CONFIG_KMOD
/* not found attempt to autoload module */
if (!ca && capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
request_module("tcp_%s", name);
rcu_read_lock();
ca = tcp_ca_find(name);
}
#endif
if (!ca)
err = -ENOENT;
......
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