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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>seccomp: fix memory leak on filter attach</title>
<updated>2014-04-16T19:25:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
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<published>2014-04-16T17:54:34+00:00</published>
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This sets the correct error code when final filter memory is unavailable,
and frees the raw filter no matter what.

unreferenced object 0xffff8800d6ea4000 (size 512):
  comm "sshd", pid 278, jiffies 4294898315 (age 46.653s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    21 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 15 00 01 00 3e 00 00 c0  !...........&gt;...
    06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!.......
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff8151414e&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [&lt;ffffffff811a3a40&gt;] __kmalloc+0x280/0x320
    [&lt;ffffffff8110842e&gt;] prctl_set_seccomp+0x11e/0x3b0
    [&lt;ffffffff8107bb6b&gt;] SyS_prctl+0x3bb/0x4a0
    [&lt;ffffffff8152ef2d&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Reported-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This sets the correct error code when final filter memory is unavailable,
and frees the raw filter no matter what.

unreferenced object 0xffff8800d6ea4000 (size 512):
  comm "sshd", pid 278, jiffies 4294898315 (age 46.653s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    21 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 15 00 01 00 3e 00 00 c0  !...........&gt;...
    06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!.......
  backtrace:
    [&lt;ffffffff8151414e&gt;] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [&lt;ffffffff811a3a40&gt;] __kmalloc+0x280/0x320
    [&lt;ffffffff8110842e&gt;] prctl_set_seccomp+0x11e/0x3b0
    [&lt;ffffffff8107bb6b&gt;] SyS_prctl+0x3bb/0x4a0
    [&lt;ffffffff8152ef2d&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
    [&lt;ffffffffffffffff&gt;] 0xffffffffffffffff

Reported-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Tested-by: Masami Ichikawa &lt;masami256@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>seccomp: fix populating a0-a5 syscall args in 32-bit x86 BPF</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T20:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-14T19:02:59+00:00</published>
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Linus reports that on 32-bit x86 Chromium throws the following seccomp
resp. audit log messages:

  audit: type=1326 audit(1397359304.356:28108): auid=500 uid=500
gid=500 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
pid=3677 comm="chrome" exe="/opt/google/chrome/chrome" sig=0
syscall=172 compat=0 ip=0xb2dd9852 code=0x30000

  audit: type=1326 audit(1397359304.356:28109): auid=500 uid=500
gid=500 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
pid=3677 comm="chrome" exe="/opt/google/chrome/chrome" sig=0 syscall=5
compat=0 ip=0xb2dd9852 code=0x50000

These audit messages are being triggered via audit_seccomp() through
__secure_computing() in seccomp mode (BPF) filter with seccomp return
codes 0x30000 (== SECCOMP_RET_TRAP) and 0x50000 (== SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO)
during filter runtime. Moreover, Linus reports that x86_64 Chromium
seems fine.

The underlying issue that explains this is that the implementation of
populate_seccomp_data() is wrong. Our seccomp data structure sd that
is being shared with user ABI is:

  struct seccomp_data {
    int nr;
    __u32 arch;
    __u64 instruction_pointer;
    __u64 args[6];
  };

Therefore, a simple cast to 'unsigned long *' for storing the value of
the syscall argument via syscall_get_arguments() is just wrong as on
32-bit x86 (or any other 32bit arch), it would result in storing a0-a5
at wrong offsets in args[] member, and thus i) could leak stack memory
to user space and ii) tampers with the logic of seccomp BPF programs
that read out and check for syscall arguments:

  syscall_get_arguments(task, regs, 0, 1, (unsigned long *) &amp;sd-&gt;args[0]);

Tested on 32-bit x86 with Google Chrome, unfortunately only via remote
test machine through slow ssh X forwarding, but it fixes the issue on
my side. So fix it up by storing args in type correct variables, gcc
is clever and optimizes the copy away in other cases, e.g. x86_64.

Fixes: bd4cf0ed331a ("net: filter: rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set")
Reported-and-bisected-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Linus reports that on 32-bit x86 Chromium throws the following seccomp
resp. audit log messages:

  audit: type=1326 audit(1397359304.356:28108): auid=500 uid=500
gid=500 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
pid=3677 comm="chrome" exe="/opt/google/chrome/chrome" sig=0
syscall=172 compat=0 ip=0xb2dd9852 code=0x30000

  audit: type=1326 audit(1397359304.356:28109): auid=500 uid=500
gid=500 ses=2 subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:chrome_sandbox_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
pid=3677 comm="chrome" exe="/opt/google/chrome/chrome" sig=0 syscall=5
compat=0 ip=0xb2dd9852 code=0x50000

These audit messages are being triggered via audit_seccomp() through
__secure_computing() in seccomp mode (BPF) filter with seccomp return
codes 0x30000 (== SECCOMP_RET_TRAP) and 0x50000 (== SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO)
during filter runtime. Moreover, Linus reports that x86_64 Chromium
seems fine.

The underlying issue that explains this is that the implementation of
populate_seccomp_data() is wrong. Our seccomp data structure sd that
is being shared with user ABI is:

  struct seccomp_data {
    int nr;
    __u32 arch;
    __u64 instruction_pointer;
    __u64 args[6];
  };

Therefore, a simple cast to 'unsigned long *' for storing the value of
the syscall argument via syscall_get_arguments() is just wrong as on
32-bit x86 (or any other 32bit arch), it would result in storing a0-a5
at wrong offsets in args[] member, and thus i) could leak stack memory
to user space and ii) tampers with the logic of seccomp BPF programs
that read out and check for syscall arguments:

  syscall_get_arguments(task, regs, 0, 1, (unsigned long *) &amp;sd-&gt;args[0]);

Tested on 32-bit x86 with Google Chrome, unfortunately only via remote
test machine through slow ssh X forwarding, but it fixes the issue on
my side. So fix it up by storing args in type correct variables, gcc
is clever and optimizes the copy away in other cases, e.g. x86_64.

Fixes: bd4cf0ed331a ("net: filter: rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set")
Reported-and-bisected-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit</title>
<updated>2014-04-12T19:38:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-12T19:38:53+00:00</published>
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Pull audit updates from Eric Paris.

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits)
  AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC
  audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range
  audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly
  AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces
  audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header
  kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c
  sched: declare pid_alive as inline
  audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations
  syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments
  audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call
  audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages
  audit: include subject in login records
  audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages
  audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace
  audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace
  audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace.
  pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
  audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context()
  audit: Add generic compat syscall support
  audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
  ...
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Pull audit updates from Eric Paris.

* git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit: (28 commits)
  AUDIT: make audit_is_compat depend on CONFIG_AUDIT_COMPAT_GENERIC
  audit: renumber AUDIT_FEATURE_CHANGE into the 1300 range
  audit: do not cast audit_rule_data pointers pointlesly
  AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespaces
  audit: define audit_is_compat in kernel internal header
  kernel: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER(x, NULL) in audit.c
  sched: declare pid_alive as inline
  audit: use uapi/linux/audit.h for AUDIT_ARCH declarations
  syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments
  audit: remove stray newline from audit_log_execve_info() audit_panic() call
  audit: remove stray newlines from audit_log_lost messages
  audit: include subject in login records
  audit: remove superfluous new- prefix in AUDIT_LOGIN messages
  audit: allow user processes to log from another PID namespace
  audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace
  audit: convert PPIDs to the inital PID namespace.
  pid: get pid_t ppid of task in init_pid_ns
  audit: rename the misleading audit_get_context() to audit_take_context()
  audit: Add generic compat syscall support
  audit: Add CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2014-04-03T16:26:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-03T16:26:18+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Apart from reordering the SELinux mmap code to ensure DAC is called
  before MAC, these are minor maintenance updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
  selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded
  selinux: put the mmap() DAC controls before the MAC controls
  selinux: fix the output of ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl for SELinux
  evm: enable key retention service automatically
  ima: skip memory allocation for empty files
  evm: EVM does not use MD5
  ima: return d_name.name if d_path fails
  integrity: fix checkpatch errors
  ima: fix erroneous removal of security.ima xattr
  security: integrity: Use a more current logging style
  MAINTAINERS: email updates and other misc. changes
  ima: reduce memory usage when a template containing the n field is used
  ima: restore the original behavior for sending data with ima template
  Integrity: Pass commname via get_task_comm()
  fs: move i_readcount
  ima: use static const char array definitions
  security: have cap_dentry_init_security return error
  ima: new helper: file_inode(file)
  kernel: Mark function as static in kernel/seccomp.c
  capability: Use current logging styles
  ...
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Apart from reordering the SELinux mmap code to ensure DAC is called
  before MAC, these are minor maintenance updates"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (23 commits)
  selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded
  selinux: put the mmap() DAC controls before the MAC controls
  selinux: fix the output of ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl for SELinux
  evm: enable key retention service automatically
  ima: skip memory allocation for empty files
  evm: EVM does not use MD5
  ima: return d_name.name if d_path fails
  integrity: fix checkpatch errors
  ima: fix erroneous removal of security.ima xattr
  security: integrity: Use a more current logging style
  MAINTAINERS: email updates and other misc. changes
  ima: reduce memory usage when a template containing the n field is used
  ima: restore the original behavior for sending data with ima template
  Integrity: Pass commname via get_task_comm()
  fs: move i_readcount
  ima: use static const char array definitions
  security: have cap_dentry_init_security return error
  ima: new helper: file_inode(file)
  kernel: Mark function as static in kernel/seccomp.c
  capability: Use current logging styles
  ...
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<entry>
<title>net: filter: rework/optimize internal BPF interpreter's instruction set</title>
<updated>2014-03-31T04:45:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexei Starovoitov</name>
<email>ast@plumgrid.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-28T17:58:25+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces/reworks the kernel-internal BPF interpreter with
an optimized BPF instruction set format that is modelled closer to
mimic native instruction sets and is designed to be JITed with one to
one mapping. Thus, the new interpreter is noticeably faster than the
current implementation of sk_run_filter(); mainly for two reasons:

1. Fall-through jumps:

  BPF jump instructions are forced to go either 'true' or 'false'
  branch which causes branch-miss penalty. The new BPF jump
  instructions have only one branch and fall-through otherwise,
  which fits the CPU branch predictor logic better. `perf stat`
  shows drastic difference for branch-misses between the old and
  new code.

2. Jump-threaded implementation of interpreter vs switch
   statement:

  Instead of single table-jump at the top of 'switch' statement,
  gcc will now generate multiple table-jump instructions, which
  helps CPU branch predictor logic.

Note that the verification of filters is still being done through
sk_chk_filter() in classical BPF format, so filters from user- or
kernel space are verified in the same way as we do now, and same
restrictions/constraints hold as well.

We reuse current BPF JIT compilers in a way that this upgrade would
even be fine as is, but nevertheless allows for a successive upgrade
of BPF JIT compilers to the new format.

The internal instruction set migration is being done after the
probing for JIT compilation, so in case JIT compilers are able to
create a native opcode image, we're going to use that, and in all
other cases we're doing a follow-up migration of the BPF program's
instruction set, so that it can be transparently run in the new
interpreter.

In short, the *internal* format extends BPF in the following way (more
details can be taken from the appended documentation):

  - Number of registers increase from 2 to 10
  - Register width increases from 32-bit to 64-bit
  - Conditional jt/jf targets replaced with jt/fall-through
  - Adds signed &gt; and &gt;= insns
  - 16 4-byte stack slots for register spill-fill replaced
    with up to 512 bytes of multi-use stack space
  - Introduction of bpf_call insn and register passing convention
    for zero overhead calls from/to other kernel functions
  - Adds arithmetic right shift and endianness conversion insns
  - Adds atomic_add insn
  - Old tax/txa insns are replaced with 'mov dst,src' insn

Performance of two BPF filters generated by libpcap resp. bpf_asm
was measured on x86_64, i386 and arm32 (other libpcap programs
have similar performance differences):

fprog #1 is taken from Documentation/networking/filter.txt:
tcpdump -i eth0 port 22 -dd

fprog #2 is taken from 'man tcpdump':
tcpdump -i eth0 'tcp port 22 and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&amp;0xf)&lt;&lt;2)) -
   ((tcp[12]&amp;0xf0)&gt;&gt;2)) != 0)' -dd

Raw performance data from BPF micro-benchmark: SK_RUN_FILTER on the
same SKB (cache-hit) or 10k SKBs (cache-miss); time in ns per call,
smaller is better:

--x86_64--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF      90       101        192       202
new BPF      31        71         47        97
old BPF jit  12        34         17        44
new BPF jit TBD

--i386--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF     107       136        227       252
new BPF      40       119         69       172

--arm32--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF     202       300        475       540
new BPF     180       270        330       470
old BPF jit  26       182         37       202
new BPF jit TBD

Thus, without changing any userland BPF filters, applications on
top of AF_PACKET (or other families) such as libpcap/tcpdump, cls_bpf
classifier, netfilter's xt_bpf, team driver's load-balancing mode,
and many more will have better interpreter filtering performance.

While we are replacing the internal BPF interpreter, we also need
to convert seccomp BPF in the same step to make use of the new
internal structure since it makes use of lower-level API details
without being further decoupled through higher-level calls like
sk_unattached_filter_{create,destroy}(), for example.

Just as for normal socket filtering, also seccomp BPF experiences
a time-to-verdict speedup:

05-sim-long_jumps.c of libseccomp was used as micro-benchmark:

  seccomp_rule_add_exact(ctx,...
  seccomp_rule_add_exact(ctx,...

  rc = seccomp_load(ctx);

  for (i = 0; i &lt; 10000000; i++)
     syscall(199, 100);

'short filter' has 2 rules
'large filter' has 200 rules

'short filter' performance is slightly better on x86_64/i386/arm32
'large filter' is much faster on x86_64 and i386 and shows no
               difference on arm32

--x86_64-- short filter
old BPF: 2.7 sec
 39.12%  bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
  8.10%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
  6.31%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
  5.59%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_on_caller
  4.37%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_off_caller
  3.70%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  3.67%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] lock_is_held
  3.03%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
new BPF: 2.58 sec
 42.05%  bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
  6.91%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
  6.25%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_on_caller
  6.07%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  5.08%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp

--arm32-- short filter
old BPF: 4.0 sec
 39.92%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
 16.60%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
 14.66%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  5.42%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
  5.10%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
new BPF: 3.7 sec
 35.93%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
 21.89%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
 13.45%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
  6.25%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  3.96%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] syscall_trace_exit

--x86_64-- large filter
old BPF: 8.6 seconds
    73.38%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
    10.70%    bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
     5.09%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
     1.97%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
new BPF: 5.7 seconds
    66.20%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
    16.75%    bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
     3.31%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
     2.88%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing

--i386-- large filter
old BPF: 5.4 sec
new BPF: 3.8 sec

--arm32-- large filter
old BPF: 13.5 sec
 73.88%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
 10.29%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
  6.46%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  2.94%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
  1.19%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  0.87%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_getuid
new BPF: 13.5 sec
 76.08%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
 10.98%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
  5.87%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  1.77%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  0.93%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_getuid

BPF filters generated by seccomp are very branchy, so the new
internal BPF performance is better than the old one. Performance
gains will be even higher when BPF JIT is committed for the
new structure, which is planned in future work (as successive
JIT migrations).

BPF has also been stress-tested with trinity's BPF fuzzer.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer &lt;hagen@jauu.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch replaces/reworks the kernel-internal BPF interpreter with
an optimized BPF instruction set format that is modelled closer to
mimic native instruction sets and is designed to be JITed with one to
one mapping. Thus, the new interpreter is noticeably faster than the
current implementation of sk_run_filter(); mainly for two reasons:

1. Fall-through jumps:

  BPF jump instructions are forced to go either 'true' or 'false'
  branch which causes branch-miss penalty. The new BPF jump
  instructions have only one branch and fall-through otherwise,
  which fits the CPU branch predictor logic better. `perf stat`
  shows drastic difference for branch-misses between the old and
  new code.

2. Jump-threaded implementation of interpreter vs switch
   statement:

  Instead of single table-jump at the top of 'switch' statement,
  gcc will now generate multiple table-jump instructions, which
  helps CPU branch predictor logic.

Note that the verification of filters is still being done through
sk_chk_filter() in classical BPF format, so filters from user- or
kernel space are verified in the same way as we do now, and same
restrictions/constraints hold as well.

We reuse current BPF JIT compilers in a way that this upgrade would
even be fine as is, but nevertheless allows for a successive upgrade
of BPF JIT compilers to the new format.

The internal instruction set migration is being done after the
probing for JIT compilation, so in case JIT compilers are able to
create a native opcode image, we're going to use that, and in all
other cases we're doing a follow-up migration of the BPF program's
instruction set, so that it can be transparently run in the new
interpreter.

In short, the *internal* format extends BPF in the following way (more
details can be taken from the appended documentation):

  - Number of registers increase from 2 to 10
  - Register width increases from 32-bit to 64-bit
  - Conditional jt/jf targets replaced with jt/fall-through
  - Adds signed &gt; and &gt;= insns
  - 16 4-byte stack slots for register spill-fill replaced
    with up to 512 bytes of multi-use stack space
  - Introduction of bpf_call insn and register passing convention
    for zero overhead calls from/to other kernel functions
  - Adds arithmetic right shift and endianness conversion insns
  - Adds atomic_add insn
  - Old tax/txa insns are replaced with 'mov dst,src' insn

Performance of two BPF filters generated by libpcap resp. bpf_asm
was measured on x86_64, i386 and arm32 (other libpcap programs
have similar performance differences):

fprog #1 is taken from Documentation/networking/filter.txt:
tcpdump -i eth0 port 22 -dd

fprog #2 is taken from 'man tcpdump':
tcpdump -i eth0 'tcp port 22 and (((ip[2:2] - ((ip[0]&amp;0xf)&lt;&lt;2)) -
   ((tcp[12]&amp;0xf0)&gt;&gt;2)) != 0)' -dd

Raw performance data from BPF micro-benchmark: SK_RUN_FILTER on the
same SKB (cache-hit) or 10k SKBs (cache-miss); time in ns per call,
smaller is better:

--x86_64--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF      90       101        192       202
new BPF      31        71         47        97
old BPF jit  12        34         17        44
new BPF jit TBD

--i386--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF     107       136        227       252
new BPF      40       119         69       172

--arm32--
         fprog #1  fprog #1   fprog #2  fprog #2
         cache-hit cache-miss cache-hit cache-miss
old BPF     202       300        475       540
new BPF     180       270        330       470
old BPF jit  26       182         37       202
new BPF jit TBD

Thus, without changing any userland BPF filters, applications on
top of AF_PACKET (or other families) such as libpcap/tcpdump, cls_bpf
classifier, netfilter's xt_bpf, team driver's load-balancing mode,
and many more will have better interpreter filtering performance.

While we are replacing the internal BPF interpreter, we also need
to convert seccomp BPF in the same step to make use of the new
internal structure since it makes use of lower-level API details
without being further decoupled through higher-level calls like
sk_unattached_filter_{create,destroy}(), for example.

Just as for normal socket filtering, also seccomp BPF experiences
a time-to-verdict speedup:

05-sim-long_jumps.c of libseccomp was used as micro-benchmark:

  seccomp_rule_add_exact(ctx,...
  seccomp_rule_add_exact(ctx,...

  rc = seccomp_load(ctx);

  for (i = 0; i &lt; 10000000; i++)
     syscall(199, 100);

'short filter' has 2 rules
'large filter' has 200 rules

'short filter' performance is slightly better on x86_64/i386/arm32
'large filter' is much faster on x86_64 and i386 and shows no
               difference on arm32

--x86_64-- short filter
old BPF: 2.7 sec
 39.12%  bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
  8.10%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
  6.31%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
  5.59%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_on_caller
  4.37%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_off_caller
  3.70%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  3.67%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] lock_is_held
  3.03%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
new BPF: 2.58 sec
 42.05%  bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
  6.91%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
  6.25%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] trace_hardirqs_on_caller
  6.07%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  5.08%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp

--arm32-- short filter
old BPF: 4.0 sec
 39.92%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
 16.60%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
 14.66%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  5.42%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
  5.10%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
new BPF: 3.7 sec
 35.93%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
 21.89%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
 13.45%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
  6.25%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  3.96%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] syscall_trace_exit

--x86_64-- large filter
old BPF: 8.6 seconds
    73.38%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
    10.70%    bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
     5.09%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
     1.97%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
new BPF: 5.7 seconds
    66.20%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
    16.75%    bench  libc-2.15.so       [.] syscall
     3.31%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] system_call
     2.88%    bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing

--i386-- large filter
old BPF: 5.4 sec
new BPF: 3.8 sec

--arm32-- large filter
old BPF: 13.5 sec
 73.88%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter
 10.29%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
  6.46%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  2.94%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] seccomp_bpf_load
  1.19%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  0.87%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_getuid
new BPF: 13.5 sec
 76.08%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sk_run_filter_int_seccomp
 10.98%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] vector_swi
  5.87%  bench  libc-2.17.so       [.] syscall
  1.77%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] __secure_computing
  0.93%  bench  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] sys_getuid

BPF filters generated by seccomp are very branchy, so the new
internal BPF performance is better than the old one. Performance
gains will be even higher when BPF JIT is committed for the
new structure, which is planned in future work (as successive
JIT migrations).

BPF has also been stress-tested with trinity's BPF fuzzer.

Joint work with Daniel Borkmann.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@plumgrid.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hagen Paul Pfeifer &lt;hagen@jauu.net&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>syscall_get_arch: remove useless function arguments</title>
<updated>2014-03-20T14:11:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-11T16:48:43+00:00</published>
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Every caller of syscall_get_arch() uses current for the task and no
implementors of the function need args.  So just get rid of both of
those things.  Admittedly, since these are inline functions we aren't
wasting stack space, but it just makes the prototypes better.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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Every caller of syscall_get_arch() uses current for the task and no
implementors of the function need args.  So just get rid of both of
those things.  Admittedly, since these are inline functions we aren't
wasting stack space, but it just makes the prototypes better.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux390@de.ibm.com
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel: Mark function as static in kernel/seccomp.c</title>
<updated>2014-02-28T02:54:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rashika Kheria</name>
<email>rashika.kheria@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-02-27T12:20:19+00:00</published>
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Mark function as static in kernel/seccomp.c because it is not used
outside this file.

This eliminates the following warning in kernel/seccomp.c:
kernel/seccomp.c:296:6: warning: no previous prototype for ?seccomp_attach_user_filter? [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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Mark function as static in kernel/seccomp.c because it is not used
outside this file.

This eliminates the following warning in kernel/seccomp.c:
kernel/seccomp.c:296:6: warning: no previous prototype for ?seccomp_attach_user_filter? [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria &lt;rashika.kheria@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions.</title>
<updated>2013-03-26T00:07:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Schichan</name>
<email>nschichan@freebox.fr</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-15T17:02:00+00:00</published>
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Allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan &lt;nschichan@freebox.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
</content>
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Allow BPF_XOR based ALU instructions.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan &lt;nschichan@freebox.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T11:14:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-01T18:40:45+00:00</published>
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This fixes two issues that could cause incompatibility between
kernel versions:

 - If a tracer uses SECCOMP_RET_TRACE to select a syscall number
   higher than the largest known syscall, emulate the unknown
   vsyscall by returning -ENOSYS.  (This is unlikely to make a
   noticeable difference on x86-64 due to the way the system call
   entry works.)

 - On x86-64 with vsyscall=emulate, skipped vsyscalls were buggy.

This updates the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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This fixes two issues that could cause incompatibility between
kernel versions:

 - If a tracer uses SECCOMP_RET_TRACE to select a syscall number
   higher than the largest known syscall, emulate the unknown
   vsyscall by returning -ENOSYS.  (This is unlikely to make a
   noticeable difference on x86-64 due to the way the system call
   entry works.)

 - On x86-64 with vsyscall=emulate, skipped vsyscalls were buggy.

This updates the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Acked-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>seccomp: fix build warnings when there is no CONFIG_SECCOMP_FILTER</title>
<updated>2012-04-18T02:24:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Drewry</name>
<email>wad@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-17T19:48:58+00:00</published>
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If both audit and seccomp filter support are disabled, 'ret' is marked
as unused.

If just seccomp filter support is disabled, data and skip are considered
unused.

This change fixes those build warnings.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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If both audit and seccomp filter support are disabled, 'ret' is marked
as unused.

If just seccomp filter support is disabled, data and skip are considered
unused.

This change fixes those build warnings.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
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