linux/security
Vinicius Costa Gomes 2516fde1fa apparmor: Optimize retrieving current task secid
When running will-it-scale[1] open2_process testcase, in a system with a
large number of cores, a bottleneck in retrieving the current task
secid was detected:

27.73% ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
    27.72%     0.01%  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] security_current_getsecid_subj             -      -
27.71% security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
    27.71%    27.68%  [kernel.vmlinux]      [k] apparmor_current_getsecid_subj             -      -
19.94% __refcount_add (inlined);__refcount_inc (inlined);refcount_inc (inlined);kref_get (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_current_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
7.72% __refcount_sub_and_test (inlined);__refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);kref_put (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)

A large amount of time was spent in the refcount.

The most common case is that the current task label is available, and
no need to take references for that one. That is exactly what the
critical section helpers do, make use of them.

New perf output:

39.12% vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    39.07%     0.13%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] do_dentry_open                                                               -      -
39.05% do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    38.71%     0.01%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] security_file_open                                                           -      -
38.70% security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
    38.65%    38.60%  [kernel.vmlinux]          [k] apparmor_file_open                                                           -      -
38.65% apparmor_file_open;security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)

The result is a throughput improvement of around 20% across the board
on the open2 testcase. On more realistic workloads the impact should
be much less.

[1] https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale

Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
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apparmor apparmor: Optimize retrieving current task secid 2023-10-15 21:44:31 -07:00
bpf selinux: remove the runtime disable functionality 2023-03-20 12:34:23 -04:00
integrity powerpc updates for 6.5 2023-06-30 09:20:08 -07:00
keys sysctl: move security keys sysctl registration to its own file 2023-06-08 15:42:02 -07:00
landlock hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes 2023-06-12 21:26:19 +02:00
loadpin sysctl-6.4-rc1 2023-04-27 16:52:33 -07:00
lockdown selinux: remove the runtime disable functionality 2023-03-20 12:34:23 -04:00
safesetid SafeSetID: fix UID printed instead of GID 2023-06-20 20:26:00 -04:00
selinux selinux: avoid bool as identifier name 2023-06-05 17:04:01 -04:00
smack smack: Record transmuting in smk_transmuted 2023-05-11 10:05:39 -07:00
tomoyo mm/gup: remove vmas parameter from get_user_pages_remote() 2023-06-09 16:25:26 -07:00
yama sysctl-6.4-rc1 2023-04-27 16:52:33 -07:00
commoncap.c lsm: fix a number of misspellings 2023-05-25 17:52:15 -04:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Fix kernel-doc warnings in device_cgroup 2023-06-21 09:30:49 -04:00
inode.c
Kconfig mm/slab: remove HAVE_HARDENED_USERCOPY_ALLOCATOR 2023-05-24 15:38:17 +02:00
Kconfig.hardening randstruct: disable Clang 15 support 2023-02-08 15:26:58 -08:00
lsm_audit.c lsm: fix a number of misspellings 2023-05-25 17:52:15 -04:00
Makefile security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...) 2021-09-03 08:17:20 +09:00
min_addr.c
security.c lsm/stable-6.5 PR 20230626 2023-06-27 17:24:26 -07:00