Commit f344f6df "SUNRPC: Auto-load RPC authentication kernel
modules", Mon Mar 20 13:44:08 2006, adds a request_module() call
in rpcauth_create() to auto-load RPC security modules when a ULP
tries to create a credential of that flavor.
In rpcauth_create(), the name of the module to load is built like
this:
request_module("rpc-auth-%u", flavor);
This means that for, say, RPC_AUTH_GSS, request_module() is looking
for a module or alias called "rpc-auth-6".
The GSS module is named "auth_rpcgss", and commit f344f6df does not
add any new module aliases. There is also no such alias provided in
/etc/modprobe.d on my system (Fedora 16). Without this alias, the
GSS module is not loaded on demand.
This is used by rpcauth_create(). The pseudoflavor_to_flavor() call
can return RPC_AUTH_GSS, which is passed to request_module().
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index 5257d29..282dfb1 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -1733,6 +1733,7 @@ static void __exit exit_rpcsec_gss(void)
rcu_barrier(); /* Wait for completion of call_rcu()'s */
}
+MODULE_ALIAS("rpc-auth-6");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
module_param_named(expired_cred_retry_delay,
gss_expired_cred_retry_delay,
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