* [PATCH][NETNS] Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback
@ 2007-10-15 10:23 Pavel Emelyanov
2007-10-15 19:55 ` David Miller
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From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2007-10-15 10:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: David Miller; +Cc: Eric W. Biederman, Daniel Lezcano, Linux Netdev List, devel
When the loopback device is failed to initialize inside the new
namespaces, panic() is called. Do not do it when the namespace
in question is not the init_net.
Plus cleanup the error path a bit.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
---
drivers/net/loopback.c | 11 +++++------
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/loopback.c b/drivers/net/loopback.c
index be25aa3..662b8d1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/loopback.c
+++ b/drivers/net/loopback.c
@@ -265,17 +265,16 @@ static __net_init int loopback_net_init(struct net *net)
if (err)
goto out_free_netdev;
- err = 0;
net->loopback_dev = dev;
+ return 0;
-out:
- if (err)
- panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);
- return err;
out_free_netdev:
free_netdev(dev);
- goto out;
+out:
+ if (net == &init_net)
+ panic("loopback: Failed to register netdevice: %d\n", err);
+ return err;
}
static __net_exit void loopback_net_exit(struct net *net)
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