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Message-ID: <CA+wgaPNusEVDDDokhaj5KK-gD5s0GsQWH_0m4RkbkO1ot4U4AA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 10:21:35 -0700
From:   Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@...gle.com>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>,
        Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] binder: add a mount option to show global stats

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 5:39 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:22:37AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 01:41:49PM -0700, Hridya Valsaraju wrote:
> > > Currently, all binder state and statistics live in debugfs.
> > > We need this information even when debugfs is not mounted.
> > > This patch adds the mount option 'stats' to enable a binderfs
> > > instance to have binder debug information present in the same.
> > > 'stats=global' will enable the global binder statistics. In
> > > the future, 'stats=local' will enable binder statistics local
> > > to the binderfs instance. The two modes 'global' and 'local'
> > > will be mutually exclusive. 'stats=global' option is only available
> > > for a binderfs instance mounted in the initial user namespace.
> > > An attempt to use the option to mount a binderfs instance in
> > > another user namespace will return an EPERM error.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@...gle.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/android/binderfs.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > >  1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/android/binderfs.c b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> > > index cc2e71576396..d95d179aec58 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
> > > @@ -51,18 +51,27 @@ static DEFINE_IDA(binderfs_minors);
> > >  /**
> > >   * binderfs_mount_opts - mount options for binderfs
> > >   * @max: maximum number of allocatable binderfs binder devices
> > > + * @stats_mode: enable binder stats in binderfs.
> > >   */
> > >  struct binderfs_mount_opts {
> > >     int max;
> > > +   int stats_mode;
> > >  };
> > >
> > >  enum {
> > >     Opt_max,
> > > +   Opt_stats_mode,
> > >     Opt_err
> > >  };
> > >
> > > +enum binderfs_stats_mode {
> > > +   STATS_NONE,
> > > +   STATS_GLOBAL,
> > > +};
> > > +
> > >  static const match_table_t tokens = {
> > >     { Opt_max, "max=%d" },
> > > +   { Opt_stats_mode, "stats=%s" },
> > >     { Opt_err, NULL     }
> > >  };
> > >
> > > @@ -290,8 +299,9 @@ static void binderfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
> > >  static int binderfs_parse_mount_opts(char *data,
> > >                                  struct binderfs_mount_opts *opts)
> > >  {
> > > -   char *p;
> > > +   char *p, *stats;
> > >     opts->max = BINDERFS_MAX_MINOR;
> > > +   opts->stats_mode = STATS_NONE;
> > >
> > >     while ((p = strsep(&data, ",")) != NULL) {
> > >             substring_t args[MAX_OPT_ARGS];
> > > @@ -311,6 +321,24 @@ static int binderfs_parse_mount_opts(char *data,
> > >
> > >                     opts->max = max_devices;
> > >                     break;
> > > +           case Opt_stats_mode:
> > > +                   stats = match_strdup(&args[0]);
> > > +                   if (!stats)
> > > +                           return -ENOMEM;
> > > +
> > > +                   if (strcmp(stats, "global") != 0) {
> > > +                           kfree(stats);
> > > +                           return -EINVAL;
> > > +                   }
> > > +
> > > +                   if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> > > +                           kfree(stats);
> > > +                           return -EINVAL;
> >
> > Can a non-CAP_SYS_ADMIN task even call this function?  Anyway, if it
>
> It can. A task that has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the userns the corresponding
> binderfs mount has been created in can change the max=<nr> mount option.
> Only stats=global currently requires capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) aka
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the initial userns to prevent non-initial userns from
> snooping at global statistics.
>
> > can, put the check at the top of the case, and just return early before
> > doing any extra work like checking values or allocating memory.

Thank you Greg and Christian for reviewing the patch! That makes
sense, I will make the change and send out v2 soon.

> >
> > > +                   }
> > > +
> > > +                   opts->stats_mode = STATS_GLOBAL;
> > > +                   kfree(stats);
> > > +                   break;
> > >             default:
> > >                     pr_err("Invalid mount options\n");
> > >                     return -EINVAL;
> > > @@ -322,8 +350,21 @@ static int binderfs_parse_mount_opts(char *data,
> > >
> > >  static int binderfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
> > >  {
> > > +   int prev_stats_mode, ret;
> > >     struct binderfs_info *info = sb->s_fs_info;
> > > -   return binderfs_parse_mount_opts(data, &info->mount_opts);
> > > +
> > > +   prev_stats_mode = info->mount_opts.stats_mode;
> > > +   ret = binderfs_parse_mount_opts(data, &info->mount_opts);
> > > +   if (ret)
> > > +           return ret;
> > > +
> > > +   if (prev_stats_mode != info->mount_opts.stats_mode) {
> > > +           pr_info("Binderfs stats mode cannot be changed during a remount\n");
> >
> > pr_err()?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h

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