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

commit 510193a2d3d2e03ae53b95c0ae4f33cdff02cbf8 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
index 801d92d..a417f94 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-mpath.c
@@ -698,8 +698,8 @@ 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;