netdev - [PATCH][NETNS] Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback

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Date:	Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:23:13 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: [PATCH][NETNS] Don't panic on creating the namespace's loopback

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@...nvz.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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