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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2011-05-28 08:25:51 -0700
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-05-28 12:02:09 -0400
commit69b4573296469fd3f70cf7044693074980517067 (patch)
treeaea41eacb2a0f32748145a59bb8dc300b4485f36
parentd76ee18a8551e33ad7dbd55cac38bc7b094f3abb (diff)
downloadlinux-69b4573296469fd3f70cf7044693074980517067.tar.bz2
Cache xattr security drop check for write v2
Some recent benchmarking on btrfs showed that a major scaling bottleneck on large systems on btrfs is currently the xattr lookup on every write. Why xattr lookup on every write I hear you ask? write wants to drop suid and security related xattrs that could set o capabilities for executables. To do that it currently looks up security.capability on EVERY write (even for non executables) to decide whether to drop it or not. In btrfs this causes an additional tree walk, hitting some per file system locks and quite bad scalability. In a simple read workload on a 8S system I saw over 90% CPU time in spinlocks related to that. Chris Mason tells me this is also a problem in ext4, where it hits the global mbcache lock. This patch adds a simple per inode to avoid this problem. We only do the lookup once per file and then if there is no xattr cache the decision. All xattr changes clear the flag. I also used the same flag to avoid the suid check, although that one is pretty cheap. A file system can also set this flag when it creates the inode, if it has a cheap way to do so. This is done for some common file systems in followon patches. With this patch a major part of the lock contention disappears for btrfs. Some testing on smaller systems didn't show significant performance changes, but at least it helps the larger systems and is generally more efficient. v2: Rename is_sgid. add file system helper. Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com Cc: josef@redhat.com Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk Cc: agruen@linbit.com Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--fs/attr.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c7
-rw-r--r--include/linux/fs.h13
-rw-r--r--mm/filemap.c14
4 files changed, 37 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/attr.c b/fs/attr.c
index 91dbe2a107f2..caf2aa521e2b 100644
--- a/fs/attr.c
+++ b/fs/attr.c
@@ -175,6 +175,13 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr)
return -EPERM;
}
+ if ((ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
+ mode_t amode = attr->ia_mode;
+ /* Flag setting protected by i_mutex */
+ if (is_sxid(amode))
+ inode->i_flags &= ~S_NOSEC;
+ }
+
now = current_fs_time(inode->i_sb);
attr->ia_ctime = now;
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 4be2e7666d02..f060663ab70c 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@ int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
int error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ int issec = !strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
+ XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN);
+ if (issec)
+ inode->i_flags &= ~S_NOSEC;
if (inode->i_op->setxattr) {
error = inode->i_op->setxattr(dentry, name, value, size, flags);
if (!error) {
@@ -99,8 +103,7 @@ int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
security_inode_post_setxattr(dentry, name, value,
size, flags);
}
- } else if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
- XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN)) {
+ } else if (issec) {
const char *suffix = name + XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN;
error = security_inode_setsecurity(inode, suffix, value,
size, flags);
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 573028df050d..c55d6b7cd5d6 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define S_PRIVATE 512 /* Inode is fs-internal */
#define S_IMA 1024 /* Inode has an associated IMA struct */
#define S_AUTOMOUNT 2048 /* Automount/referral quasi-directory */
+#define S_NOSEC 4096 /* no suid or xattr security attributes */
/*
* Note that nosuid etc flags are inode-specific: setting some file-system
@@ -273,6 +274,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
#define IS_PRIVATE(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_PRIVATE)
#define IS_IMA(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_IMA)
#define IS_AUTOMOUNT(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_AUTOMOUNT)
+#define IS_NOSEC(inode) ((inode)->i_flags & S_NOSEC)
/* the read-only stuff doesn't really belong here, but any other place is
probably as bad and I don't want to create yet another include file. */
@@ -2582,5 +2584,16 @@ int __init get_filesystem_list(char *buf);
#define OPEN_FMODE(flag) ((__force fmode_t)(((flag + 1) & O_ACCMODE) | \
(flag & __FMODE_NONOTIFY)))
+static inline int is_sxid(mode_t mode)
+{
+ return (mode & S_ISUID) || ((mode & S_ISGID) && (mode & S_IXGRP));
+}
+
+static inline void inode_has_no_xattr(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ if (!is_sxid(inode->i_mode))
+ inode->i_flags |= S_NOSEC;
+}
+
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_FS_H */
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index dac95a24deac..d7b10578a64b 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -1982,16 +1982,26 @@ static int __remove_suid(struct dentry *dentry, int kill)
int file_remove_suid(struct file *file)
{
struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
- int killsuid = should_remove_suid(dentry);
- int killpriv = security_inode_need_killpriv(dentry);
+ struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+ int killsuid;
+ int killpriv;
int error = 0;
+ /* Fast path for nothing security related */
+ if (IS_NOSEC(inode))
+ return 0;
+
+ killsuid = should_remove_suid(dentry);
+ killpriv = security_inode_need_killpriv(dentry);
+
if (killpriv < 0)
return killpriv;
if (killpriv)
error = security_inode_killpriv(dentry);
if (!error && killsuid)
error = __remove_suid(dentry, killsuid);
+ if (!error)
+ inode->i_flags |= S_NOSEC;
return error;
}