From 556e6256c813063b95a9f4e55109f77c1a7d3fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:55:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] netpoll: use the net namespace of current process instead of
init_net
This will allow us to setup netconsole in a different namespace
rather than where init_net is.
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/netpoll.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index a6f39b6aeec0..331ccb90f915 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;
--
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