Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] br_netfilter: add struct netns_brnf

[Pablo Neira Ayuso]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 03:20:45AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 01:20:47AM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> My suggestion is to keep these files per network namespace but have a
> single flag argument in struct netns_brnf:
> +struct netns_brnf {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
> +        struct ctl_table_header *ctl_hdr;
> +#endif
> +
> +       /* default value is 1 */
> +       unsigned int filter_flags;
> +};
> 
> #define BRNF_CALL_IPTABLES    0x1
> #define BRNF_CALL_IP6TABLES   0x2
> #define BRNF_CALL_ARPTABLES   0x4
> #define BRNF_CALL_VLAN_TAGGED 0x8
> 
> a write to the corresponding file would then cause the flag to be set or
> unset in filter_flags.
> This way we are a) space-efficient internally not bloating struct net
> while b) not breaking running tools in non-initial network namespaces
> that expect the files to be there. b) is really the important bit here. :)

OK, please, go explore this space-efficient approach. Thanks.