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SubjectRe: [PATCH] seccomp: Improve performance by optimizing memory barrier
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> On Feb 1, 2021, at 4:06 AM, wanghongzhe <wanghongzhe@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> If a thread(A)'s TSYNC flag is set from seccomp(), then it will
> synchronize its seccomp filter to other threads(B) in same thread
> group. To avoid race condition, seccomp puts rmb() between
> reading the mode and filter in seccomp check patch(in B thread).
> As a result, every syscall's seccomp check is slowed down by the
> memory barrier.
>
> However, we can optimize it by calling rmb() only when filter is
> NULL and reading it again after the barrier, which means the rmb()
> is called only once in thread lifetime.
>
> The 'filter is NULL' conditon means that it is the first time
> attaching filter and is by other thread(A) using TSYNC flag.
> In this case, thread B may read the filter first and mode later
> in CPU out-of-order exection. After this time, the thread B's
> mode is always be set, and there will no race condition with the
> filter/bitmap.
>
> In addtion, we should puts a write memory barrier between writing
> the filter and mode in smp_mb__before_atomic(), to avoid
> the race condition in TSYNC case.

I haven’t fully worked this out, but rmb() is bogus. This should be smp_rmb().

>
> Signed-off-by: wanghongzhe <wanghongzhe@huawei.com>
> ---
> kernel/seccomp.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
> index 952dc1c90229..b944cb2b6b94 100644
> --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
> +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
> @@ -397,8 +397,20 @@ static u32 seccomp_run_filters(const struct seccomp_data *sd,
> READ_ONCE(current->seccomp.filter);
>
> /* Ensure unexpected behavior doesn't result in failing open. */
> - if (WARN_ON(f == NULL))
> - return SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS;
> + if (WARN_ON(f == NULL)) {
> + /*
> + * Make sure the first filter addtion (from another
> + * thread using TSYNC flag) are seen.
> + */
> + rmb();
> +
> + /* Read again */
> + f = READ_ONCE(current->seccomp.filter);
> +
> + /* Ensure unexpected behavior doesn't result in failing open. */
> + if (WARN_ON(f == NULL))
> + return SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS;
> + }
>
> if (seccomp_cache_check_allow(f, sd))
> return SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW;
> @@ -614,9 +626,16 @@ static inline void seccomp_sync_threads(unsigned long flags)
> * equivalent (see ptrace_may_access), it is safe to
> * allow one thread to transition the other.
> */
> - if (thread->seccomp.mode == SECCOMP_MODE_DISABLED)
> + if (thread->seccomp.mode == SECCOMP_MODE_DISABLED) {
> + /*
> + * Make sure mode cannot be set before the filter
> + * are set.
> + */
> + smp_mb__before_atomic();
> +
> seccomp_assign_mode(thread, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER,
> flags);
> + }
> }
> }
>
> @@ -1160,12 +1179,6 @@ static int __seccomp_filter(int this_syscall, const struct seccomp_data *sd,
> int data;
> struct seccomp_data sd_local;
>
> - /*
> - * Make sure that any changes to mode from another thread have
> - * been seen after SYSCALL_WORK_SECCOMP was seen.
> - */
> - rmb();
> -
> if (!sd) {
> populate_seccomp_data(&sd_local);
> sd = &sd_local;
> --
> 2.19.1
>

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