There have been reports of multipath table loads hanging due to __request_module hanging (for some unknown reason). More often than not, the scsi_dh is already available and there is no need to request_module(). Reported-by: Ben Marzinski <bmarzins@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-mpath.c | 4 ++-- 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; -- 1.7.1 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel