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Message-Id: <20230116212105.1840362-2-mjguzik@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Jan 2023 22:21:05 +0100
From:   Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
To:     viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Cc:     serge@...lyn.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] vfs: avoid duplicating creds in faccessat if possible

access(2) remains commonly used, for example on exec:
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)

or when running gcc: strace -c gcc empty.c
% time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
  0.00    0.000000           0        42        26 access

It falls down to do_faccessat without the AT_EACCESS flag, which in turn
results in allocation of new creds in order to modify fsuid/fsgid and
caps. This is a very expensive process single-threaded and most notably
multi-threaded, with numerous structures getting refed and unrefed on
imminent new cred destruction.

Turns out for typical consumers the resulting creds would be identical
and this can be checked upfront, avoiding the hard work.

An access benchmark plugged into will-it-scale running on Cascade Lake
shows:
test	proc	before	after
access1	1	1310582	2908735	 (+121%)  # distinct files
access1	24	4716491	63822173 (+1353%) # distinct files
access2	24	2378041	5370335	 (+125%)  # same file

The above benchmarks are not integrated into will-it-scale, but can be
found in a pull request:
https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale/pull/36/files

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>

v2:
- fix current->cred usage warn reported by the kernel test robot
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/202301150709.9EC6UKBT-lkp@intel.com/
---
 fs/open.c | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 82c1a28b3308..3c068a38044c 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -367,7 +367,37 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(fallocate, int, fd, int, mode, compat_arg_u64_dual(offset
  * access() needs to use the real uid/gid, not the effective uid/gid.
  * We do this by temporarily clearing all FS-related capabilities and
  * switching the fsuid/fsgid around to the real ones.
+ *
+ * Creating new credentials is expensive, so we try to skip doing it,
+ * which we can if the result would match what we already got.
  */
+static bool access_need_override_creds(int flags)
+{
+	const struct cred *cred;
+
+	if (flags & AT_EACCESS)
+		return false;
+
+	cred = current_cred();
+	if (!uid_eq(cred->fsuid, cred->uid) ||
+	    !gid_eq(cred->fsgid, cred->gid))
+		return true;
+
+	if (!issecure(SECURE_NO_SETUID_FIXUP)) {
+		kuid_t root_uid = make_kuid(cred->user_ns, 0);
+		if (!uid_eq(cred->uid, root_uid)) {
+			if (!cap_isclear(cred->cap_effective))
+				return true;
+		} else {
+			if (!cap_isidentical(cred->cap_effective,
+			    cred->cap_permitted))
+				return true;
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 static const struct cred *access_override_creds(void)
 {
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
@@ -436,7 +466,7 @@ static long do_faccessat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode, int fla
 	if (flags & AT_EMPTY_PATH)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
 
-	if (!(flags & AT_EACCESS)) {
+	if (access_need_override_creds(flags)) {
 		old_cred = access_override_creds();
 		if (!old_cred)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-- 
2.34.1

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