From patchwork Mon Jan 28 01:55:21 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [net-next, v2, 2/2] netpoll: use the net namespace of current process instead of init_net Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:55:21 -0000 From: Amerigo Wang X-Patchwork-Id: 216100 Message-Id: <1359338121-10897-2-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com> To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , "David S. Miller" , Cong Wang From: Cong Wang This will allow us to setup netconsole in a different namespace rather than where init_net is. Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Cong Wang --- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index a6f39b6..331ccb9 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -1049,8 +1049,10 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np) int err; rtnl_lock(); - if (np->dev_name) - ndev = __dev_get_by_name(&init_net, np->dev_name); + if (np->dev_name) { + struct net *net = current->nsproxy->net_ns; + ndev = __dev_get_by_name(net, np->dev_name); + } if (!ndev) { np_err(np, "%s doesn't exist, aborting\n", np->dev_name); err = -ENODEV;