[PATCH RFC] Support for JIT in Seccomp BPF filters.
Nicolas Schichan
nschichan at freebox.fr
Mon Mar 18 10:50:29 EDT 2013
Hi,
This patch serie adds support for jitted seccomp BPF filters, with the
required modifications to make it work on the ARM architecture.
- The first patch in the serie adds the required boiler plate in the
core kernel seccomp code to invoke the JIT compilation/free code.
- The second patch reworks the ARM BPF JIT code to make the generation
process less dependent on struct sk_filter.
- The last patch actually implements the ARM part in the BPF jit code.
Some benchmarks, on a 1.6Ghz 88f6282 CPU:
Each system call is tested in two way (fast/slow):
- on the fast version, the tested system call is accepted immediately
after checking the architecture (5 BPF instructions).
- on the slow version, the tested system call is accepted after
previously checking for 85 syscall (90 instructions, including the
architecture check).
The tested syscall is invoked in a loop 1000000 time, the reported
time is the time spent in the loop in seconds.
Without Seccomp JIT:
Syscall Time-Fast Time-Slow
--------------- ---------- ----------
gettimeofday 0.389 1.633
getpid 0.406 1.688
getresuid 1.003 2.266
getcwd 1.342 2.128
With Seccomp JIT:
Syscall Time-Fast Time-Slow
--------------- ----------- ---------
gettimeofday 0.348 0.428
getpid 0.365 0.480
getresuid 0.981 1.060
getcwd 1.237 1.294
For reference, the same code without any seccomp filter:
Syscall Time
--------------- -----
gettimeofday 0.119
getpid 0.137
getresuid 0.747
getcwd 1.021
The activation of the BPF JIT for seccomp is still controled with the
/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable sysctl knob.
Those changes are based on the latest rmk-for-next branch.
V2 Changes:
- Document the @bpf_func field in struct seccomp_filter as recommended
by Kees Cook.
- Invoke seccomp_bpf_load directly from generated code without going
via a wrapper.
Regards,
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