Re: [PATCH v3] nbd: automatically load module on genl access

[Josef Bacik]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 09:29:35PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Josef