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Description of problem:
Running "dd if=<dev>" as user, when <dev>'s driver modules aren't loaded, is
supposed to autoload those modules. RedHat 7.3 fails to do so.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. Assume the CDROM is /dev/hdc.
1. As root, /sbin/rmmod the ide-cd and cdrom modules.
2. As user, dd if=/dev/hdc bs=4k count=1 of=/dev/null

	

Actual Results:  dd's open() of /dec/hdc in step 2 failed, and modprobe failed
to insmod the ide-cd and cdrom modules.


Expected Results:  The ide-cd and cdrom modules should have autoloaded, and step
2's dd command should have succeeded.


Additional info:

There are several other access methods that _do_ correctly
trigger the autoload:
3a. perform step 2 as root
3b. (as user) tar tvf /dev/hdc -- tar won't find an archive,
    but the modules load correctly
3c. dd bs=4k count=1 of=/dev/null < /dev/hdc
    regular open() and fopen() do work, just not in dd :-(

This problem is new in RedHat 7.3. It causes problems for those
of us that use custom kernels with modular floppy driver, and
build test kernels with "make bzdisk" as regular users.

Vanilla PC hardware. Vanilla RH7.3 install. RH7.2 worked.