Hi, On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 02:48:58PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: [...] > diff --git a/include/net/netns/netfilter.h b/include/net/netns/netfilter.h > index ca043342c0eb..eedbd1ac940e 100644 > --- a/include/net/netns/netfilter.h > +++ b/include/net/netns/netfilter.h > @@ -35,4 +35,20 @@ struct netns_nf { > bool defrag_ipv6; > #endif > }; > + > +struct netns_brnf { > +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL > + struct ctl_table_header *ctl_hdr; > +#endif > + > + /* default value is 1 */ > + int call_iptables; > + int call_ip6tables; > + int call_arptables; > + > + /* default value is 0 */ > + int filter_vlan_tagged; > + int filter_pppoe_tagged; > + int pass_vlan_indev; > +}; I have spun on this several times, wondering if there's a way to avoid scratching these many bytes per netns to expose these sysctl entries that are plain on/off toggles... You said this: >Currently, the /proc/sys/net/bridge folder is only created in the >initial network namespace I think we can add one single sysctl to expose these as flags from net namespaces. Idea is to keep the existing (legacy) sysctl entries for init_net only, and add a new single new one that exposes these as flags (should be also available for consistency in init_net I'd suggest). Flags could be map in this way, eg. 0x1 call_iptables 0x2 call_ip6tables 0x4 call_arptables 0x8 filter_vlan_tagged ... Also documentation would be good to have for this. Would this idea fly for you? Thanks.