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SubjectRe: [RFC v2 09/10] landlock: Handle cgroups (performance)
On Aug 27, 2016 11:14 PM, "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net> wrote:
>
>
> On 27/08/2016 22:43, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 09:35:14PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> >> On 27/08/2016 20:06, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 04:06:38PM +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> >>>> As said above, Landlock will not run an eBPF programs when not strictly
> >>>> needed. Attaching to a cgroup will have the same performance impact as
> >>>> attaching to a process hierarchy.
> >>>
> >>> Having a prog per cgroup per lsm_hook is the only scalable way I
> >>> could come up with. If you see another way, please propose.
> >>> current->seccomp.landlock_prog is not the answer.
> >>
> >> Hum, I don't see the difference from a performance point of view between
> >> a cgroup-based or a process hierarchy-based system.
> >>
> >> Maybe a better option should be to use an array of pointers with N
> >> entries, one for each supported hook, instead of a unique pointer list?
> >
> > yes, clearly array dereference is faster than link list walk.
> > Now the question is where to keep this prog_array[num_lsm_hooks] ?
> > Since we cannot keep it inside task_struct, we have to allocate it.
> > Every time the task is creted then. What to do on the fork? That
> > will require changes all over. Then the obvious optimization would be
> > to share this allocated array of prog pointers across multiple tasks...
> > and little by little this new facility will look like cgroup.
> > Hence the suggestion to put this array into cgroup from the start.
>
> I see your point :)
>
> >
> >> Anyway, being able to attach an LSM hook program to a cgroup thanks to
> >> the new BPF_PROG_ATTACH seems a good idea (while keeping the possibility
> >> to use a process hierarchy). The downside will be to handle an LSM hook
> >> program which is not triggered by a seccomp-filter, but this should be
> >> needed anyway to handle interruptions.
> >
> > what do you mean 'not triggered by seccomp' ?
> > You're not suggesting that this lsm has to enable seccomp to be functional?
> > imo that's non starter due to overhead.
>
> Yes, for now, it is triggered by a new seccomp filter return value
> RET_LANDLOCK, which can take a 16-bit value called cookie. This must not
> be needed but could be useful to bind a seccomp filter security policy
> with a Landlock one. Waiting for Kees's point of view…
>

I'm not Kees, but I'd be okay with that. I still think that doing
this by process hierarchy a la seccomp will be easier to use and to
understand (which is quite important for this kind of work) than doing
it by cgroup.

A feature I've wanted to add for a while is to have an fd that
represents a seccomp layer, the idea being that you would set up your
seccomp layer (with syscall filter, landlock hooks, etc) and then you
would have a syscall to install that layer. Then an unprivileged
sandbox manager could set up its layer and still be able to inject new
processes into it later on, no cgroups needed.

--Andy

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