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>
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