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Message-ID: <m1vd0zh5eh.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:11:02 -0800
From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Octavian Purdila <opurdila@...acom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] sysctl: faster reimplementation of sysctl_check_table
Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com> writes:
> Determining the parent of a node at depth d
> - previous implementation: O(d)
> - current implementation: O(1)
>
> Printing the path to a node at depth d
> - previous implementation: O(d^2)
> - current implementation: O(d)
>
> This comes to a cost: we use an array ('parents') holding as many
> pointers as there can be sysctl levels (currently CTL_MAXNAME=10).
>
> The 'parents' array of pointers holds the same values as the
> ctl_table->parents field because the function that updates ->parents
> (sysctl_set_parent) is called with either NULL (for root nodes) or
> with sysctl_set_parent(table, table->child).
>
> Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
> ---
> kernel/sysctl_check.c | 130 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
> 1 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl_check.c b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> index 10b90d8..d23b085 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl_check.c
> @@ -6,58 +6,34 @@
> #include <net/ip_vs.h>
>
>
> -static int sysctl_depth(struct ctl_table *table)
> -{
> - struct ctl_table *tmp;
> - int depth;
> -
> - depth = 0;
> - for (tmp = table; tmp->parent; tmp = tmp->parent)
> - depth++;
> -
> - return depth;
> -}
> -
> -static struct ctl_table *sysctl_parent(struct ctl_table *table, int n)
> +static void sysctl_print_path(struct ctl_table *table,
> + struct ctl_table **parents, int depth)
> {
> + struct ctl_table *p;
> int i;
> -
> - for (i = 0; table && i < n; i++)
> - table = table->parent;
> -
> - return table;
> -}
> -
> -
> -static void sysctl_print_path(struct ctl_table *table)
> -{
> - struct ctl_table *tmp;
> - int depth, i;
> - depth = sysctl_depth(table);
> if (table->procname) {
> - for (i = depth; i >= 0; i--) {
> - tmp = sysctl_parent(table, i);
> - printk("/%s", tmp->procname?tmp->procname:"");
> + for (i = 0; i < depth; i++) {
> + p = parents[i];
> + printk("/%s", p->procname ? p->procname : "");
> }
> + printk("/%s", table->procname);
> }
> printk(" ");
> }
>
> static struct ctl_table *sysctl_check_lookup(struct nsproxy *namespaces,
> - struct ctl_table *table)
> + struct ctl_table *table, struct ctl_table **parents, int depth)
> {
> struct ctl_table_header *head;
> struct ctl_table *ref, *test;
> - int depth, cur_depth;
> -
> - depth = sysctl_depth(table);
> + int cur_depth;
>
> for (head = __sysctl_head_next(namespaces, NULL); head;
> head = __sysctl_head_next(namespaces, head)) {
> cur_depth = depth;
> ref = head->ctl_table;
> repeat:
> - test = sysctl_parent(table, cur_depth);
> + test = parents[depth - cur_depth];
> for (; ref->procname; ref++) {
> int match = 0;
> if (cur_depth && !ref->child)
> @@ -83,11 +59,12 @@ out:
> return ref;
> }
>
> -static void set_fail(const char **fail, struct ctl_table *table, const char *str)
> +static void set_fail(const char **fail, struct ctl_table *table,
> + const char *str, struct ctl_table **parents, int depth)
> {
> if (*fail) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "sysctl table check failed: ");
> - sysctl_print_path(table);
> + sysctl_print_path(table, parents, depth);
> printk(" %s\n", *fail);
> dump_stack();
> }
> @@ -95,40 +72,55 @@ static void set_fail(const char **fail, struct ctl_table *table, const char *str
> }
>
> static void sysctl_check_leaf(struct nsproxy *namespaces,
> - struct ctl_table *table, const char **fail)
> + struct ctl_table *table, const char **fail,
> + struct ctl_table **parents, int depth)
> {
> struct ctl_table *ref;
>
> - ref = sysctl_check_lookup(namespaces, table);
> - if (ref && (ref != table))
> - set_fail(fail, table, "Sysctl already exists");
> + ref = sysctl_check_lookup(namespaces, table, parents, depth);
> + if (ref && (ref != table)) {
> + printk(KERN_ALERT "sysctl_check_leaf ref[%s], table[%s]\n", ref->procname, table->procname);
> + set_fail(fail, table, "Sysctl already exists", parents, depth);
> + }
> }
>
> -int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table)
> +
> +
> +#define SET_FAIL(str) set_fail(&fail, table, str, parents, depth)
> +
> +static int __sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces,
> + struct ctl_table *table, struct ctl_table **parents, int depth)
> {
> + const char *fail = NULL;
> int error = 0;
> +
> + if (depth >= CTL_MAXNAME) {
This should be depth > CTL_MAXNAME. Because there are only CTL_MAXNAME
entries in the array.
Eric
> + SET_FAIL("Sysctl tree too deep");
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
> +
> for (; table->procname; table++) {
> - const char *fail = NULL;
> + fail = NULL;
>
> if (table->parent) {
> if (table->procname && !table->parent->procname)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Parent without procname");
> + SET_FAIL("Parent without procname");
> }
> if (!table->procname)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "No procname");
> + SET_FAIL("No procname");
> if (table->child) {
> if (table->data)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Directory with data?");
> + SET_FAIL("Directory with data?");
> if (table->maxlen)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Directory with maxlen?");
> + SET_FAIL("Directory with maxlen?");
> if ((table->mode & (S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO)) != table->mode)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Writable sysctl directory");
> + SET_FAIL("Writable sysctl directory");
> if (table->proc_handler)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Directory with proc_handler");
> + SET_FAIL("Directory with proc_handler");
> if (table->extra1)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Directory with extra1");
> + SET_FAIL("Directory with extra1");
> if (table->extra2)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "Directory with extra2");
> + SET_FAIL("Directory with extra2");
> } else {
> if ((table->proc_handler == proc_dostring) ||
> (table->proc_handler == proc_dointvec) ||
> @@ -139,28 +131,42 @@ int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table)
> (table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_minmax) ||
> (table->proc_handler == proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax)) {
> if (!table->data)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "No data");
> + SET_FAIL("No data");
> if (!table->maxlen)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "No maxlen");
> + SET_FAIL("No maxlen");
> }
> #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
> if (table->procname && !table->proc_handler)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "No proc_handler");
> -#endif
> -#if 0
> - if (!table->procname && table->proc_handler)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "proc_handler without procname");
> + SET_FAIL("No proc_handler");
> #endif
> - sysctl_check_leaf(namespaces, table, &fail);
> + parents[depth] = table;
> + sysctl_check_leaf(namespaces, table, &fail,
> + parents, depth);
> }
> if (table->mode > 0777)
> - set_fail(&fail, table, "bogus .mode");
> + SET_FAIL("bogus .mode");
> if (fail) {
> - set_fail(&fail, table, NULL);
> + SET_FAIL(NULL);
> error = -EINVAL;
> }
> - if (table->child)
> - error |= sysctl_check_table(namespaces, table->child);
> + if (table->child) {
> + parents[depth] = table;
> + error |= __sysctl_check_table(namespaces, table->child,
> + parents, depth + 1);
> + }
> }
> return error;
> }
> +
> +
> +int sysctl_check_table(struct nsproxy *namespaces, struct ctl_table *table)
> +{
> + struct ctl_table *parents[CTL_MAXNAME];
> + /* Keep track of parents as we go down into the tree.
> + *
> + * parents[i-1] will be the parent for parents[i].
> + * The node at depth 'd' will have the parent at parents[d-1].
> + * The root node (depth=0) has no parent in this array.
> + */
> + return __sysctl_check_table(namespaces, table, parents, 0);
> +}
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