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| author | Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net> | 2023-07-13 21:29:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2023-07-17 08:18:17 -0600 |
| commit | ffe357c868e7796f20bc0eac61f5b952731c0fa8 (patch) | |
| tree | e1f1e6e896a30c2a3d5db498477879ce2cbf7252 /drivers/block/nbd.c | |
| parent | 16291561e125ef50cb1875227fce9c1583f0de3c (diff) | |
nbd: automatically load module on genl access
Add a module alias to nbd.ko that allows the generic netlink core to
automatically load the module when netlink messages for nbd are
received.
This frees the user from manually having to load the module before using
nbd functionality via netlink.
If the system policy allows it this can even be used to load the nbd
module from containers which would otherwise not have access to the
necessary module files to do a normal "modprobe nbd".
For example this avoids the following error when using nbd-client:
$ nbd-client localhost 10809 /dev/nbd0
...
Error: Couldn't resolve the nbd netlink family, make sure the nbd module is loaded and your nbd driver supports the netlink interface.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpadna.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230713-b4-nbd-genl-v3-1-226cbddba04b@weissschuh.net
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/nbd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/nbd.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 8576d696c7a2..a346dbd73543 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -2336,6 +2336,7 @@ static struct genl_family nbd_genl_family __ro_after_init = { .mcgrps = nbd_mcast_grps, .n_mcgrps = ARRAY_SIZE(nbd_mcast_grps), }; +MODULE_ALIAS_GENL_FAMILY(NBD_GENL_FAMILY_NAME); static int populate_nbd_status(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct sk_buff *reply) { |