Commit 510193a2 authored by Mike Snitzer's avatar Mike Snitzer Committed by Alasdair G Kergon

dm mpath: check if scsi_dh module already loaded before trying to load

If the requested scsi_dh module is already loaded then skip
request_module().

Multipath table loads can hang in an unnecessary __request_module.
Reported-by: default avatarBen Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
parent 7cab8bf1
......@@ -718,8 +718,8 @@ static int parse_hw_handler(struct dm_arg_set *as, struct multipath *m)
return 0;
m->hw_handler_name = kstrdup(dm_shift_arg(as), GFP_KERNEL);
request_module("scsi_dh_%s", m->hw_handler_name);
if (scsi_dh_handler_exist(m->hw_handler_name) == 0) {
if (!try_then_request_module(scsi_dh_handler_exist(m->hw_handler_name),
"scsi_dh_%s", m->hw_handler_name)) {
ti->error = "unknown hardware handler type";
ret = -EINVAL;
goto fail;
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