From 1378889c563a2938d231203ed36c041af183b798 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 10:19:15 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] scsi_dh: Use the correct module name when loading device handler This fixes a bug in recent kernels which results in failure to boot on systems that have multipath SCSI disks. I observed this failure on a POWER8 server where all the disks are multipath SCSI disks. The symptoms are several messages like this on the console: [ 3.018700] device-mapper: table: 253:0: multipath: error attaching hardware handler [ 3.018828] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table and the system does not find its disks, and therefore fails to boot. Bisection revealed that the bug was introduced in commit 566079c849cf, "dm-mpath, scsi_dh: request scsi_dh modules in scsi_dh, not dm-mpath". The specific reason for the failure is that where we previously loaded the "scsi_dh_alua" module, we are now trying to load the "alua" module, which doesn't exist. To fix this, we change the request_module call in scsi_dh_lookup() to prepend "scsi_dh_" to the name, just like the old code in drivers/md/dm-mpath.c:parse_hw_handler() used to do. [jejb: also fixes issue spotted by Sasha Levin that formatting characters could be passed in via sysfs and cause issues with request_module()] Fixes: 566079c849cf Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras Cc: Sasha Levin Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c index edb044a7b56d..0a2168e69bbc 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_dh.c @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static struct scsi_device_handler *scsi_dh_lookup(const char *name) dh = __scsi_dh_lookup(name); if (!dh) { - request_module(name); + request_module("scsi_dh_%s", name); dh = __scsi_dh_lookup(name); } -- 2.39.5