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authorMike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>2012-05-12 01:43:21 +0100
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2012-05-12 01:43:21 +0100
commit510193a2d3d2e03ae53b95c0ae4f33cdff02cbf8 (patch)
tree7d1a5c7b9c8bb19fef2d28e6ec84c5f0e400be61 /drivers/md
parent7cab8bf1601d38fd73a0a4ea40cc4892b26907cc (diff)
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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: Ben Marzinski <bmarzins@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-mpath.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 922a338..754f38f 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -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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