selinux: sidtab reverse lookup hash table

This replaces the reverse table lookup and reverse cache with a
hashtable which improves cache-miss reverse-lookup times from
O(n) to O(1)* and maintains the same performance as a reverse
cache hit.

This reduces the time needed to add a new sidtab entry from ~500us
to 5us on a Pixel 3 when there are ~10,000 sidtab entries.

The implementation uses the kernel's generic hashtable API,
It uses the context's string represtation as the hash source,
and the kernels generic string hashing algorithm full_name_hash()
to reduce the string to a 32 bit value.

This change also maintains the improvement introduced in
commit ee1a84fdfeed ("selinux: overhaul sidtab to fix bug and improve
performance") which removed the need to keep the current sidtab
locked during policy reload. It does however introduce periodic
locking of the target sidtab while converting the hashtable. Sidtab
entries are never modified or removed, so the context struct stored
in the sid_to_context tree can also be used for the context_to_sid
hashtable to reduce memory usage.

This bug was reported by:
- On the selinux bug tracker.
  BUG: kernel softlockup due to too many SIDs/contexts #37
  https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel/issues/37
- Jovana Knezevic on Android's bugtracker.
  Bug: 140252993
  "During multi-user performance testing, we create and remove users
  many times. selinux_android_restorecon_pkgdir goes from 1ms to over
  20ms after about 200 user creations and removals. Accumulated over
  ~280 packages, that adds a significant time to user creation,
  making perf benchmarks unreliable."

* Hashtable lookup is only O(1) when n < the number of buckets.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Reported-by: Jovana Knezevic <jovanak@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Tested-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
[PM: subj tweak, removed changelog from patch description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/security/selinux/Kconfig b/security/selinux/Kconfig
index 5711689deb6a..c9e576c430c2 100644
--- a/security/selinux/Kconfig
+++ b/security/selinux/Kconfig
@@ -85,3 +85,15 @@ config SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE
 	  via /selinux/checkreqprot if authorized by policy.
 
 	  If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer 0.
+
+config SECURITY_SELINUX_SIDTAB_HASH_BITS
+	int "NSA SELinux sidtab hashtable size"
+	depends on SECURITY_SELINUX
+	range 8 13
+	default 9
+	help
+	  This option sets the number of buckets used in the sidtab hashtable
+	  to 2^SECURITY_SELINUX_SIDTAB_HASH_BITS buckets. The number of hash
+	  collisions may be viewed at /sys/fs/selinux/ss/sidtab_hash_stats. If
+	  chain lengths are high (e.g. > 20) then selecting a higher value here
+	  will ensure that lookups times are short and stable.