On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:40 AM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Translating a context struct to string can be quite slow, especially if > the context has a lot of category bits set. This can cause quite > noticeable performance impact in situations where the translation needs > to be done repeatedly. A common example is a UNIX datagram socket with > the SO_PASSSEC option enabled, which is used e.g. by systemd-journald > when receiving log messages via datagram socket. This scenario can be > reproduced with: > > cat /dev/urandom | base64 | logger & > timeout 30s perf record -p $(pidof systemd-journald) -a -g > kill %1 > perf report -g none --pretty raw | grep security_secid_to_secctx > > Before the caching introduced by this patch, computing the context > string (security_secid_to_secctx() function) takes up ~65% of > systemd-journald's CPU time (assuming a context with 1024 categories > set and Fedora x86_64 release kernel configs). After this patch > (assuming near-perfect cache hit ratio) this overhead is reduced to just > ~2%. > > This patch addresses the issue by caching a certain number (compile-time > configurable) of recently used context strings to speed up repeated > translations of the same context, while using only a small amount of > memory. > > The cache is integrated into the existing sidtab table by adding a field > to each entry, which when not NULL contains an RCU-protected pointer to > a cache entry containing the cached string. The cache entries are kept > in a linked list sorted according to how recently they were used. On a > cache miss when the cache is full, the least recently used entry is > removed to make space for the new entry. > > The patch migrates security_sid_to_context_core() to use the cache (also > a few other functions where it was possible without too much fuss, but > these mostly use the translation for logging in case of error, which is > rare). > > Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733259 > Cc: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Changes in v4: > - use rcu_dereference_protected() instead of rcu_dereference_raw() in > sidtab_sid2str_put() > - fix typo in comment > - remove unnecessary rcu_head_init() call > > Changes in v3: > - add rcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and Paul McKenney to Cc for review of the RCU > logic > - add __rcu annotation to the cache entry pointer (sidtab.c now passes > sparse checks with C=1) > > Changes in v2: > - skip sidtab_sid2str_put() when in non-task context to prevent > deadlock while avoiding the need to lock the spinlock with > irqsave/-restore (which is slower) > > security/selinux/Kconfig | 11 ++ > security/selinux/ss/services.c | 138 +++++++++++++++---------- > security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c | 179 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ > security/selinux/ss/sidtab.h | 58 +++++++++-- > 4 files changed, 294 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-) ... > diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c > index 7d49994e8d5f..6d6ce1c43b49 100644 > --- a/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c > +++ b/security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c > @@ -492,3 +528,88 @@ void sidtab_destroy(struct sidtab *s) > > sidtab_destroy_tree(s->roots[level], level); > } > + > +#if CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_SID2STR_CACHE_SIZE > 0 > + > +void sidtab_sid2str_put(struct sidtab *s, struct sidtab_entry *entry, > + const char *str, u32 str_len) > +{ > + struct sidtab_str_cache *cache, *victim; > + > + /* do not cache invalid contexts */ > + if (entry->context.len) > + return; > + > + /* > + * Skip the put operation when in non-task context to avoid the need > + * to disable interrupts while holding s->cache_lock. > + */ > + if (!in_task()) > + return; > + > + spin_lock(&s->cache_lock); > + > + cache = rcu_dereference_protected(entry->cache, > + lockdep_is_held(&s->cache_lock)); > + if (cache) { > + /* entry in cache - just bump to the head of LRU list */ > + list_move(&cache->lru_member, &s->cache_lru_list); > + goto out_unlock; > + } > + > + cache = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sidtab_str_cache) + str_len, GFP_ATOMIC); > + if (!cache) > + goto out_unlock; > + > + if (s->cache_free_slots == 0) { > + /* pop a cache entry from the tail and free it */ > + victim = container_of(s->cache_lru_list.prev, > + struct sidtab_str_cache, lru_member); > + list_del(&victim->lru_member); > + kfree_rcu(victim, rcu_member); We could move the kfree_rcu() down to after we drop the spinlock, right? It's likely not a big deal, but since the whole point of this patch is performance improvements it seems like it might be nice. ;) > + rcu_assign_pointer(victim->parent->cache, NULL); > + } else { > + s->cache_free_slots--; > + } > + cache->parent = entry; > + cache->len = str_len; > + memcpy(cache->str, str, str_len); > + list_add(&cache->lru_member, &s->cache_lru_list); > + > + rcu_assign_pointer(entry->cache, cache); > + > +out_unlock: > + spin_unlock(&s->cache_lock); > +} -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com
