improve performance:
- Eliminate custom reference count and condition variable to monitor
threads entering the framework, as this had both significant overhead
and behaved badly in the face of contention.
- Replace reference count with two locks: an rwlock and an sx lock,
which will be read-acquired by threads entering the framework
depending on whether a give policy entry point is permitted to sleep
or not.
- Replace previous mutex locking of the reference count for exclusive
access with write acquiring of both the policy list sx and rw locks,
which occurs only when policies are attached or detached.
- Do a lockless read of the dynamic policy list head before acquiring
any locks in order to reduce overhead when no dynamic policies are
loaded; this a race we can afford to lose.
- For every policy entry point invocation, decide whether sleeping is
permitted, and if not, use a _NOSLEEP() variant of the composition
macros, which will use the rwlock instead of the sxlock. In some
cases, we decide which to use based on allocation flags passed to the
MAC Framework entry point.
As with the move to rwlocks/rmlocks in pfil, this may trigger witness
warnings, but these should (generally) be false positives as all
acquisition of the locks is for read with two very narrow exceptions
for policy load/unload, and those code blocks should never acquire
other locks.
Sponsored by: Google, Inc.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Discussed with: csjp (idea, not specific patch)
memory mappings when the MAC label on a process changes, to
mac_proc_vm_revoke(),
It now also acquires its own credential reference directly from the
affected process rather than accepting one passed by the the caller,
simplifying the API and consumer code.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
(1) Abstract interpreter vnode labeling in execve(2) and mac_execve(2)
so that the general exec code isn't aware of the details of
allocating, copying, and freeing labels, rather, simply passes in
a void pointer to start and stop functions that will be used by
the framework. This change will be MFC'd.
(2) Introduce a new flags field to the MAC_POLICY_SET(9) interface
allowing policies to declare which types of objects require label
allocation, initialization, and destruction, and define a set of
flags covering various supported object types (MPC_OBJECT_PROC,
MPC_OBJECT_VNODE, MPC_OBJECT_INPCB, ...). This change reduces the
overhead of compiling the MAC Framework into the kernel if policies
aren't loaded, or if policies require labels on only a small number
or even no object types. Each time a policy is loaded or unloaded,
we recalculate a mask of labeled object types across all policies
present in the system. Eliminate MAC_ALWAYS_LABEL_MBUF option as it
is no longer required.
MFC after: 1 week ((1) only)
Reviewed by: csjp
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: Apple, Inc.
conjuction with 'thread' argument passing which is always curthread.
Remove the unuseful extra-argument and pass explicitly curthread to lower
layer functions, when necessary.
KPI results broken by this change, which should affect several ports, so
version bumping and manpage update will be further committed.
Tested by: kris, pho, Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>
Remove this argument and pass curthread directly to underlying
VOP_LOCK1() VFS method. This modify makes the code cleaner and in
particular remove an annoying dependence helping next lockmgr() cleanup.
KPI results, obviously, changed.
Manpage and FreeBSD_version will be updated through further commits.
As a side note, would be valuable to say that next commits will address
a similar cleanup about VFS methods, in particular vop_lock1 and
vop_unlock.
Tested by: Diego Sardina <siarodx at gmail dot com>,
Andrea Di Pasquale <whyx dot it at gmail dot com>
from Mac OS X Leopard--rationalize naming for entry points to
the following general forms:
mac_<object>_<method/action>
mac_<object>_check_<method/action>
The previous naming scheme was inconsistent and mostly
reversed from the new scheme. Also, make object types more
consistent and remove spaces from object types that contain
multiple parts ("posix_sem" -> "posixsem") to make mechanical
parsing easier. Introduce a new "netinet" object type for
certain IPv4/IPv6-related methods. Also simplify, slightly,
some entry point names.
All MAC policy modules will need to be recompiled, and modules
not updates as part of this commit will need to be modified to
conform to the new KPI.
Sponsored by: SPARTA (original patches against Mac OS X)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project, Apple Computer
previously conditionally acquired Giant based on debug.mpsafenet. As that
has now been removed, they are no longer required. Removing them
significantly simplifies error-handling in the socket layer, eliminated
quite a bit of unwinding of locking in error cases.
While here clean up the now unneeded opt_net.h, which previously was used
for the NET_WITH_GIANT kernel option. Clean up some related gotos for
consistency.
Reviewed by: bz, csjp
Tested by: kris
Approved by: re (kensmith)
system calls now enter without Giant held, and then in some cases, acquire
Giant explicitly.
Remove a number of other MPSAFE annotations in the credential code and
tweak one or two other adjacent comments.
mac_framework.c Contains basic MAC Framework functions, policy
registration, sysinits, etc.
mac_syscalls.c Contains implementations of various MAC system calls,
including ENOSYS stubs when compiling without options
MAC.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
consumes and implements, as well as the location of the framework and
policy modules.
Refactor MAC Framework versioning a bit so that the current ABI version can
be exported via a read-only sysctl.
Further update comments relating to locking/synchronization.
Update copyright to take into account these and other recent changes.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Framework and security modules, to src/sys/security/mac/mac_policy.h,
completing the removal of kernel-only MAC Framework include files from
src/sys/sys. Update the MAC Framework and MAC policy modules. Delete
the old mac_policy.h.
Third party policy modules will need similar updating.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
subsystems will be a property of policy modules, which may require
access control check entry points to be invoked even when not actively
enforcing (i.e., to track information flow without providing
protection).
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Suggested by: Christopher dot Vance at sparta dot com
begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now
contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all
in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included
across most of the kernel instead.
This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC
Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPARTA
other problems while labels were first being added to various kernel
objects. They have outlived their usefulness.
MFC after: 1 month
Suggested by: Christopher dot Vance at SPARTA dot com
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
framework. This makes Giant protection around MAC operations which inter-
act with VFS conditional, based on the MPSAFE status of the file system.
Affected the following syscalls:
o __mac_get_fd
o __mac_get_file
o __mac_get_link
o __mac_set_fd
o __mac_set_file
o __mac_set_link
-Drop Giant all together in __mac_set_proc because the
mac_cred_mmapped_drop_perms_recurse routine no longer requires it.
-Move conditional Giant aquisitions to after label allocation routines.
-Move the conditional release of Giant to before label de-allocation
routines.
Discussed with: rwatson
of the socket label to thread-local storage, and replace it with
conditional acquisition based on debug.mpsafenet. Acquire the socket
lock around the copy operation.
In mac_set_fd(), replace the unconditional acquisition of Giant with
the conditional acquisition of Giant based on debug.mpsafenet. The socket
lock is acquired in mac_socket_label_set() so doesn't have to be
acquired here.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: SPAWAR, SPARTA
changes associated with adding System V IPC support. This will prevent
old modules from being used with the new kernel, and new modules from
being used with the old kernel.
for modules linked into the kernel or loaded very early, panics will
result otherwise, as the CV code it calls will panic due to its use
of a mutex before it is initialized.
for unknown events.
A number of modules return EINVAL in this instance, and I have left
those alone for now and instead taught MOD_QUIESCE to accept this
as "didn't do anything".
synchronization protecting against dynamic load and unload of MAC
policies, and instead simply blocks load and unload. In a static
configuration, this allows you to avoid the synchronization costs
associated with introducing dynamicism.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, McAfee Research
to use the "year1-year3" format, as opposed to "year1, year2, year3".
This seems to make lawyers more happy, but also prevents the
lines from getting excessively long as the years start to add up.
Suggested by: imp
would allocate two 'struct pipe's from the pipe zone, and malloc a
mutex.
- Create a new "struct pipepair" object holding the two 'struct
pipe' instances, struct mutex, and struct label reference. Pipe
structures now have a back-pointer to the pipe pair, and a
'pipe_present' flag to indicate whether the half has been
closed.
- Perform mutex init/destroy in zone init/destroy, avoiding
reallocating the mutex for each pipe. Perform most pipe structure
setup in zone constructor.
- VM memory mappings for pageable buffers are still done outside of
the UMA zone.
- Change MAC API to speak 'struct pipepair' instead of 'struct pipe',
update many policies. MAC labels are also handled outside of the
UMA zone for now. Label-only policy modules don't have to be
recompiled, but if a module is recompiled, its pipe entry points
will need to be updated. If a module actually reached into the
pipe structures (unlikely), that would also need to be modified.
These changes substantially simplify failure handling in the pipe
code as there are many fewer possible failure modes.
On half-close, pipes no longer free the 'struct pipe' for the closed
half until a full-close takes place. However, VM mapped buffers
are still released on half-close.
Some code refactoring is now possible to clean up some of the back
references, etc; this patch attempts not to change the structure
of most of the pipe implementation, only allocation/free code
paths, so as to avoid introducing bugs (hopefully).
This cuts about 8%-9% off the cost of sequential pipe allocation
and free in system call tests on UP and SMP in my micro-benchmarks.
May or may not make a difference in macro-benchmarks, but doing
less work is good.
Reviewed by: juli, tjr
Testing help: dwhite, fenestro, scottl, et al
system calls, and prefer these calls over getsockopt()/setsockopt()
for ABI reasons. When addressing UNIX domain sockets, these calls
retrieve and modify the socket label, not the label of the
rendezvous vnode.
- Create mac_copy_socket_label() entry point based on
mac_copy_pipe_label() entry point, intended to copy the socket
label into temporary storage that doesn't require a socket lock
to be held (currently Giant).
- Implement mac_copy_socket_label() for various policies.
- Expose socket label allocation, free, internalize, externalize
entry points as non-static from mac_net.c.
- Use mac_socket_label_set() in __mac_set_fd().
MAC-aware applications may now use mac_get_fd(), mac_set_fd(), and
mac_get_peer() to retrieve and set various socket labels without
directly invoking the getsockopt() interface.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Giant and is also MPSAFE.
Push Giant further down into __mac_get_fd() and __mac_set_fd(),
grabbing it only for constrained regions dealing with VFS, and
dropping it entirely for operations related to labeling of pipes.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
in various kernel objects to represent security data, we embed a
(struct label *) pointer, which now references labels allocated using
a UMA zone (mac_label.c). This allows the size and shape of struct
label to be varied without changing the size and shape of these kernel
objects, which become part of the frozen ABI with 5-STABLE. This opens
the door for boot-time selection of the number of label slots, and hence
changes to the bound on the number of simultaneous labeled policies
at boot-time instead of compile-time. This also makes it easier to
embed label references in new objects as required for locking/caching
with fine-grained network stack locking, such as inpcb structures.
This change also moves us further in the direction of hiding the
structure of kernel objects from MAC policy modules, not to mention
dramatically reducing the number of '&' symbols appearing in both the
MAC Framework and MAC policy modules, and improving readability.
While this results in minimal performance change with MAC enabled, it
will observably shrink the size of a number of critical kernel data
structures for the !MAC case, and should have a small (but measurable)
performance benefit (i.e., struct vnode, struct socket) do to memory
conservation and reduced cost of zeroing memory.
NOTE: Users of MAC must recompile their kernel and all MAC modules as a
result of this change. Because this is an API change, third party
MAC modules will also need to be updated to make less use of the '&'
symbol.
Suggestions from: bmilekic
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Include src/sys/security/mac/mac_internal.h in kern_mac.c.
Remove redundant defines from the include: SYSCTL_DECL(), debug macros,
composition macros.
Unstaticize various bits now exposed to the remainder of the kernel:
mac_init_label(), mac_destroy_label().
Remove all the functions now implemented in mac_process/mac_vfs/mac_net/
mac_pipe. Also remove debug counters, sysctls exporting debug
counters, enforcement flags, sysctls exporting enforcement flags.
Leave module declaration, sysctl nodes, mactemp malloc type, system
calls.
This should conclude MAC/LINT/NOTES breakage from the break-out process,
but I'm running builds now to make sure I caught everything.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Unstaticize mac_late.
Remove ea_warn_once, now in mac_vfs.c.
Unstaticisize mac_policy_list, mac_static_policy_list, use
struct mac_policy_list_head instead of LIST_HEAD() directly.
Unstaticize and un-inline MAC policy locking functions so they can
be referenced from mac_*.c.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
mac_reflect_mbuf_icmp()
mac_reflect_mbuf_tcp()
These entry points permit MAC policies to do "update in place"
changes to the labels on ICMP and TCP mbuf headers when an ICMP or
TCP response is generated to a packet outside of the context of
an existing socket. For example, in respond to a ping or a RST
packet to a SYN on a closed port.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
explicit access control checks to delete and list extended attributes
on a vnode, rather than implicitly combining with the setextattr and
getextattr checks. This reflects EA API changes in the kernel made
recently, including the move to explicit VOP's for both of these
operations.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD PRoject
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
MAC_DEBUG_COUNTER_INC() and MAC_DEBUG_COUNTER_DEC() to maintain
debugging counter values rather than #ifdef'ing the atomic
operations to MAC_DEBUG.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
the MAC policy modules to improve robustness against C string
bugs and vulnerabilities. Following these revisions, all
string construction of labels for export to userspace (or
elsewhere) is performed using the sbuf API, which prevents
the consumer from having to perform laborious and intricate
pointer and buffer checks. This substantially simplifies
the externalization logic, both at the MAC Framework level,
and in individual policies; this becomes especially useful
when policies export more complex label data, such as with
compartments in Biba and MLS.
Bundled in here are some other minor fixes associated with
externalization: including avoiding malloc while holding the
process mutex in mac_lomac, and hence avoid a failure mode
when printing labels during a downgrade operation due to
the removal of the M_NOWAIT case.
This has been running in the MAC development tree for about
three weeks without problems.
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
Several of the subtypes have an associated vnode which is used for
stuff like the f*() functions.
By giving the vnode a speparate field, a number of checks for the specific
subtype can be replaced simply with a check for f_vnode != NULL, and
we can later free f_data up to subtype specific use.
At this point in time, f_data still points to the vnode, so any code I
might have overlooked will still work.
constants in question refer to the number of label slots, not the
maximum number of policies that may be loaded. This should reduce
confusion regarding an element in the MAC sysctl MIB, as well as
make it more clear what the affect of changing the compile-time
constants is.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
(1) Accept that we're now going to use mutexes, so don't attempt
to avoid treating them as mutexes. This cleans up locking
accessor function names some.
(2) Rename variables to _mtx, _cv, _count, simplifying the naming.
(3) Add a new form of the _busy() primitive that conditionally
makes the list busy: if there are entries on the list, bump
the busy count. If there are no entries, don't bump the busy
count. Return a boolean indicating whether or not the busy
count was bumped.
(4) Break mac_policy_list into two lists: one with the same name
holding dynamic policies, and a new list, mac_static_policy_list,
which holds policies loaded before mac_late and without the
unload flag set. The static list may be accessed without
holding the busy count, since it can't change at run-time.
(5) In general, prefer making the list busy conditionally, meaning
we pay only one mutex lock per entry point if all modules are
on the static list, rather than two (since we don't have to
lower the busy count when we're done with the framework). For
systems running just Biba or MLS, this will halve the mutex
accesses in the network stack, and may offer a substantial
performance benefits.
(6) Lay the groundwork for a dynamic-free kernel option which
eliminates all locking associated with dynamically loaded or
unloaded policies, for pre-configured systems requiring
maximum performance but less run-time flexibility.
These changes have been running for a few weeks on MAC development
branch systems.
Approved by: re (jhb)
Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
