rdma: Autoload netlink client modules

If a message comes in and we do not have the client in the table, then
try to load the module supplying that client using MODULE_ALIAS to find
it.

This duplicates the scheme seen in other netlink muxes (eg nfnetlink).

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>

5 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
index d8edd8b11561..b76de2e2b209 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c
@@ -4537,5 +4537,7 @@ static void __exit cma_cleanup(void)
 	destroy_workqueue(cma_wq);
 }
 
+MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_NETLINK(RDMA_NL_RDMA_CM, 1);
+
 module_init(cma_init);
 module_exit(cma_cleanup);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
index 91d7cea1a0b9..fc6be1175183 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
@@ -1252,5 +1252,7 @@ static void __exit ib_core_cleanup(void)
 	destroy_workqueue(ib_wq);
 }
 
+MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_NETLINK(RDMA_NL_LS, 4);
+
 module_init(ib_core_init);
 module_exit(ib_core_cleanup);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
index e33528e102f8..fcf42f6bb82a 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
@@ -1200,5 +1200,7 @@ static void __exit iw_cm_cleanup(void)
 	iwpm_exit(RDMA_NL_IWCM);
 }
 
+MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_NETLINK(RDMA_NL_IWCM, 2);
+
 module_init(iw_cm_init);
 module_exit(iw_cm_cleanup);
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
index f782697cf4d8..e685148dd3e6 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
@@ -84,6 +84,15 @@ static bool is_nl_valid(unsigned int type, unsigned int op)
 		return false;
 
 	cb_table = rdma_nl_types[type].cb_table;
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
+	if (!cb_table) {
+		mutex_unlock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+		request_module("rdma-netlink-subsys-%d", type);
+		mutex_lock(&rdma_nl_mutex);
+		cb_table = rdma_nl_types[type].cb_table;
+	}
+#endif
+
 	if (!cb_table || (!cb_table[op].dump && !cb_table[op].doit))
 		return false;
 	return true;
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
index 474022274e09..3ba24c428c3b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
  * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
  */
 
+#include <linux/module.h>
 #include <net/netlink.h>
 #include <rdma/rdma_netlink.h>
 
@@ -320,3 +321,5 @@ void __exit nldev_exit(void)
 {
 	rdma_nl_unregister(RDMA_NL_NLDEV);
 }
+
+MODULE_ALIAS_RDMA_NETLINK(RDMA_NL_NLDEV, 5);