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

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Thu Jun 06 2019 - 11:18:52 EST


On Thu, 6 Jun 2019 13:41:41 +0200
Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +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;
> +};

Do you really need to waste four bytes for each
flag value. If you use a u8 that would work just as well.

Bool would also work but the kernel developers frown on bool
in structures.