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| author | KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> | 2024-08-16 17:43:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> | 2024-08-22 12:24:10 -0400 |
| commit | 417c5643cd67a55f424b203b492082035d0236c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 78c0300bdbd0c6c626ef79a37ce7e8f837dd70b7 /security/lsm_audit.c | |
| parent | d51e783c17bab0c139bf78d6bd9d1f66673f7903 (diff) | |
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lsm: replace indirect LSM hook calls with static calls
LSM hooks are currently invoked from a linked list as indirect calls
which are invoked using retpolines as a mitigation for speculative
attacks (Branch History / Target injection) and add extra overhead which
is especially bad in kernel hot paths:
security_file_ioctl:
0xff...0320 <+0>: endbr64
0xff...0324 <+4>: push %rbp
0xff...0325 <+5>: push %r15
0xff...0327 <+7>: push %r14
0xff...0329 <+9>: push %rbx
0xff...032a <+10>: mov %rdx,%rbx
0xff...032d <+13>: mov %esi,%ebp
0xff...032f <+15>: mov %rdi,%r14
0xff...0332 <+18>: mov $0xff...7030,%r15
0xff...0339 <+25>: mov (%r15),%r15
0xff...033c <+28>: test %r15,%r15
0xff...033f <+31>: je 0xff...0358 <security_file_ioctl+56>
0xff...0341 <+33>: mov 0x18(%r15),%r11
0xff...0345 <+37>: mov %r14,%rdi
0xff...0348 <+40>: mov %ebp,%esi
0xff...034a <+42>: mov %rbx,%rdx
0xff...034d <+45>: call 0xff...2e0 <__x86_indirect_thunk_array+352>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Indirect calls that use retpolines leading to overhead, not just due
to extra instruction but also branch misses.
0xff...0352 <+50>: test %eax,%eax
0xff...0354 <+52>: je 0xff...0339 <security_file_ioctl+25>
0xff...0356 <+54>: jmp 0xff...035a <security_file_ioctl+58>
0xff...0358 <+56>: xor %eax,%eax
0xff...035a <+58>: pop %rbx
0xff...035b <+59>: pop %r14
0xff...035d <+61>: pop %r15
0xff...035f <+63>: pop %rbp
0xff...0360 <+64>: jmp 0xff...47c4 <__x86_return_thunk>
The indirect calls are not really needed as one knows the addresses of
enabled LSM callbacks at boot time and only the order can possibly
change at boot time with the lsm= kernel command line parameter.
An array of static calls is defined per LSM hook and the static calls
are updated at boot time once the order has been determined.
With the hook now exposed as a static call, one can see that the
retpolines are no longer there and the LSM callbacks are invoked
directly:
security_file_ioctl:
0xff...0ca0 <+0>: endbr64
0xff...0ca4 <+4>: nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
0xff...0ca9 <+9>: push %rbp
0xff...0caa <+10>: push %r14
0xff...0cac <+12>: push %rbx
0xff...0cad <+13>: mov %rdx,%rbx
0xff...0cb0 <+16>: mov %esi,%ebp
0xff...0cb2 <+18>: mov %rdi,%r14
0xff...0cb5 <+21>: jmp 0xff...0cc7 <security_file_ioctl+39>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Static key enabled for SELinux
0xffffffff818f0cb7 <+23>: jmp 0xff...0cde <security_file_ioctl+62>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Static key enabled for BPF LSM. This is something that is changed to
default to false to avoid the existing side effect issues of BPF LSM
[1] in a subsequent patch.
0xff...0cb9 <+25>: xor %eax,%eax
0xff...0cbb <+27>: xchg %ax,%ax
0xff...0cbd <+29>: pop %rbx
0xff...0cbe <+30>: pop %r14
0xff...0cc0 <+32>: pop %rbp
0xff...0cc1 <+33>: cs jmp 0xff...0000 <__x86_return_thunk>
0xff...0cc7 <+39>: endbr64
0xff...0ccb <+43>: mov %r14,%rdi
0xff...0cce <+46>: mov %ebp,%esi
0xff...0cd0 <+48>: mov %rbx,%rdx
0xff...0cd3 <+51>: call 0xff...3230 <selinux_file_ioctl>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Direct call to SELinux.
0xff...0cd8 <+56>: test %eax,%eax
0xff...0cda <+58>: jne 0xff...0cbd <security_file_ioctl+29>
0xff...0cdc <+60>: jmp 0xff...0cb7 <security_file_ioctl+23>
0xff...0cde <+62>: endbr64
0xff...0ce2 <+66>: mov %r14,%rdi
0xff...0ce5 <+69>: mov %ebp,%esi
0xff...0ce7 <+71>: mov %rbx,%rdx
0xff...0cea <+74>: call 0xff...e220 <bpf_lsm_file_ioctl>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Direct call to BPF LSM.
0xff...0cef <+79>: test %eax,%eax
0xff...0cf1 <+81>: jne 0xff...0cbd <security_file_ioctl+29>
0xff...0cf3 <+83>: jmp 0xff...0cb9 <security_file_ioctl+25>
0xff...0cf5 <+85>: endbr64
0xff...0cf9 <+89>: mov %r14,%rdi
0xff...0cfc <+92>: mov %ebp,%esi
0xff...0cfe <+94>: mov %rbx,%rdx
0xff...0d01 <+97>: pop %rbx
0xff...0d02 <+98>: pop %r14
0xff...0d04 <+100>: pop %rbp
0xff...0d05 <+101>: ret
0xff...0d06 <+102>: int3
0xff...0d07 <+103>: int3
0xff...0d08 <+104>: int3
0xff...0d09 <+105>: int3
While this patch uses static_branch_unlikely indicating that an LSM hook
is likely to be not present. In most cases this is still a better choice
as even when an LSM with one hook is added, empty slots are created for
all LSM hooks (especially when many LSMs that do not initialize most
hooks are present on the system).
There are some hooks that don't use the call_int_hook or
call_void_hook. These hooks are updated to use a new macro called
lsm_for_each_hook where the lsm_callback is directly invoked as an
indirect call.
Below are results of the relevant Unixbench system benchmarks with BPF LSM
and SELinux enabled with default policies enabled with and without these
patches.
Benchmark Delta(%): (+ is better)
==========================================================================
Execl Throughput +1.9356
File Write 1024 bufsize 2000 maxblocks +6.5953
Pipe Throughput +9.5499
Pipe-based Context Switching +3.0209
Process Creation +2.3246
Shell Scripts (1 concurrent) +1.4975
System Call Overhead +2.7815
System Benchmarks Index Score (Partial Only): +3.4859
In the best case, some syscalls like eventfd_create benefitted to about
~10%.
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/lsm_audit.c')
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