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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] ima: introduce multi-page collect buffers
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On 2 July 2014 23:21, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 23:12 +0300, Dmitry Kasatkin wrote:
>> Use of multiple-page collect buffers reduces:
>> 1) the number of block IO requests
>> 2) the number of asynchronous hash update requests
>>
>> Second is important for HW accelerated hashing, because significant
>> amount of time is spent for preparation of hash update operation,
>> which includes configuring acceleration HW, DMA engine, etc...
>> Thus, HW accelerators are more efficient when working on large
>> chunks of data.
>>
>> This patch introduces usage of multi-page collect buffers. Buffer size
>> can be specified by providing additional option to the 'ima_ahash='
>> kernel parameter. 'ima_ahash=2048,16384' specifies that minimal file
>> size to use ahash is 2048 byes and buffer size is 16384 bytes.
>> Default buffer size is 4096 bytes.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
>> ---
>> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +-
>> security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> index b406f5c..529ba58 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -1292,9 +1292,10 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
>> Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
>>
>> ima_ahash= [IMA] Asynchronous hash usage parameters
>> - Format: <min_file_size>
>> + Format: <min_file_size>[,<bufsize>]
>> Set the minimal file size when use asynchronous hash.
>> If ima_ahash is not provided, ahash usage is disabled.
>> + bufsize - hashing buffer size. 4k if not specified.
>>
>> ima_appraise= [IMA] appraise integrity measurements
>> Format: { "off" | "enforce" | "fix" }
>> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
>> index 5eb19b4..41f2695 100644
>> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
>> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
>> @@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
>> #include <crypto/hash_info.h>
>> #include "ima.h"
>>
>> -
>> struct ahash_completion {
>> struct completion completion;
>> int err;
>> @@ -36,14 +35,24 @@ static struct crypto_ahash *ima_ahash_tfm;
>>
>> /* minimal file size for ahash use */
>> static loff_t ima_ahash_size;
>> +/* default is 0 - 1 page. */
>> +static int ima_max_order;
>>
>> static int __init ima_ahash_setup(char *str)
>> {
>> - int rc;
>> + int ints[3] = { 0, };
>> +
>> + str = get_options(str, ARRAY_SIZE(ints), ints);
>> + if (!ints[0])
>> + return 0;
>> +
>> + ima_ahash_size = ints[1];
>> + ima_max_order = get_order(ints[2]);
>
> get_options() returns the number of options processed in ints[0].
> Before assigning ima_max_order, we normally check to see if it exists.
> I guess in this case it doesn't matter since it would return 0 anyway.
>
> Should there be any value checking here? Should the values be some
> multiple of 1024?
>

It is a goo question. I was looking how get_options is used. Here as
ints initialized to 0, get_order returns the same value for anyhing
which is rounded up to PAGE_SIZE. So it works in all cases.

But if we now go to module param or sysctl, then this can be discarded?

Thanks for reviewing.


>>
>> - rc = kstrtoll(str, 10, &ima_ahash_size);
>> + pr_info("ima_ahash: minsize=%lld, bufsize=%lu\n",
>> + ima_ahash_size, (PAGE_SIZE << ima_max_order));
>>
>> - return !rc;
>> + return 1;
>> }
>> __setup("ima_ahash=", ima_ahash_setup);
>>
>> @@ -166,6 +175,65 @@ static int ahash_wait(int err, struct ahash_completion *res)
>> return err;
>> }
>>
>> +/**
>> + * ima_alloc_pages() - Allocated contiguous pages.
>> + * @max_size: Maximum amount of memory to allocate.
>> + * @allocated_size: Returned size of actual allocation.
>> + * @last_warn: Should the min_size allocation warn or not.
>> + *
>> + * Tries to do opportunistic allocation for memory first trying to allocate
>> + * max_size amount of memory and then splitting that until zero order is
>> + * reached. Allocation is tried without generating allocation warnings unless
>> + * last_warn is set. Last_warn set affects only last allocation of zero order.
>> + *
>> + * Return pointer to allocated memory, or NULL on failure.
>> + */
>> +static void *ima_alloc_pages(loff_t max_size, size_t *allocated_size,
>> + int last_warn)
>> +{
>> + void *ptr;
>> + unsigned int order;
>> + gfp_t gfp_mask = __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_WAIT | __GFP_NORETRY;
>> +
>> + order = min(get_order(max_size), ima_max_order);
>> +
>> + for (; order; order--) {
>> + ptr = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp_mask, order);
>> + if (ptr) {
>> + *allocated_size = PAGE_SIZE << order;
>> + return ptr;
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* order is zero - one page */
>> +
>> + gfp_mask = GFP_KERNEL;
>> +
>> + if (!last_warn)
>> + gfp_mask |= __GFP_NOWARN;
>> +
>> + ptr = (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp_mask, 0);
>> + if (ptr) {
>> + *allocated_size = PAGE_SIZE;
>> + return ptr;
>> + }
>> +
>> + *allocated_size = 0;
>> + return NULL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +/**
>> + * ima_free_pages() - Free pages allocated by ima_alloc_pages().
>> + * @ptr: Pointer to allocated pages.
>> + * @size: Size of allocated buffer.
>> + */
>> +static void ima_free_pages(void *ptr, size_t size)
>> +{
>> + if (!ptr)
>> + return;
>> + free_pages((unsigned long)ptr, get_order(size));
>> +}
>> +
>> static int ima_calc_file_hash_atfm(struct file *file,
>> struct ima_digest_data *hash,
>> struct crypto_ahash *tfm)
>> @@ -176,6 +244,7 @@ static int ima_calc_file_hash_atfm(struct file *file,
>> struct ahash_request *req;
>> struct scatterlist sg[1];
>> struct ahash_completion res;
>> + size_t rbuf_size;
>>
>> hash->length = crypto_ahash_digestsize(tfm);
>>
>> @@ -197,7 +266,11 @@ static int ima_calc_file_hash_atfm(struct file *file,
>> if (i_size == 0)
>> goto out2;
>>
>> - rbuf = kzalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + /*
>> + * Try to allocate maximum size of memory, fail if not even single
>> + * page cannot be allocated.
>> + */
>
> The comment is nice explanation, but might be unnecessary if there was a
> function comment.
>
> Mimi
>
>> + rbuf = ima_alloc_pages(i_size, &rbuf_size, 1);
>> if (!rbuf) {
>> rc = -ENOMEM;
>> goto out1;
>> @@ -226,7 +299,7 @@ static int ima_calc_file_hash_atfm(struct file *file,
>> }
>> if (read)
>> file->f_mode &= ~FMODE_READ;
>> - kfree(rbuf);
>> + ima_free_pages(rbuf, rbuf_size);
>> out2:
>> if (!rc) {
>> ahash_request_set_crypt(req, NULL, hash->digest, 0);
>
>



--
Thanks,
Dmitry


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