On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: > This is both a cleanup and a speedup. It reduces overhead due to > installing a trivial seccomp filter by 87%. The speedup comes from > avoiding the full syscall tracing mechanism for filters that don't > return SECCOMP_RET_TRACE. > > This series works by splitting the seccomp hooks into two phases. > The first phase evaluates the filter; it can skip syscalls, allow > them, kill the calling task, or pass a u32 to the second phase. The > second phase requires a full tracing context, and it sends ptrace > events if necessary. > > Once this is done, I implemented a similar split for the x86 syscall > entry work. The C callback is invoked in two phases: the first has > only a partial frame, and it can request phase 2 processing with a > full frame. > > Finally, I switch the 64-bit system_call code to use the new split > entry work. This is a net deletion of assembly code: it replaces > all of the audit entry muck. > > In the process, I fixed some bugs. > > If this is acceptable, someone can do the same tweak for the > ia32entry and entry_32 code. > > This passes all seccomp tests that I know of, except for the ones > that don't work on current kernels.
After fighting a bit with merging this with the tsync series, I can confirm this all behaves nicely on x86_64 and ARM. -Kees -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
