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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>
Cong Wang 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 4 2
      net/core/netpoll.c

+ 4 - 2
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;