Re: [PATCH] x86,seccomp,prctl: Remove PR_TSC_SIGSEGV and seccomp TSC filtering

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 17:02:31 EST


On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 10:44:43PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 01:27:52PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > We could make the rule be that RDPMC is enabled if a perf event is
> > > mmapped or TIF_SECCOMP is clear, but I'd prefer to be convinced that
> > > there's an actual performance issue first. Ideally we can get this
> > > all working with no API or ABI change at all.
> >
> > No, we can't use that rule. But we could say that RDPMC is enabled if
> > a perf event is mmapped and no thread in the mm uses seccomp. I'll
> > grumble a little bit about adding yet another piece of seccomp state.
>
> Well, we could simply disable the RDPMC for everything TIF_SECCOMP.
> Should be fairly straight fwd.


Something like so.. slightly less ugly and possibly with more
complicated conditions setting the cr4 if you want to fix tsc vs seccomp
as well.

---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
index 16c73022306e..cfc42ff5d901 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c
@@ -1869,6 +1869,17 @@ static ssize_t set_attr_rdpmc(struct device *cdev,
return count;
}

+void perf_change_rdpmc(bool on, unsigned long *cr4)
+{
+ if (x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc_broken)
+ return;
+
+ if (on)
+ *cr4 |= X86_CR4_PCE;
+ else
+ *cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_PCE;
+}
+
static DEVICE_ATTR(rdpmc, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR, get_attr_rdpmc, set_attr_rdpmc);

static struct attribute *x86_pmu_attrs[] = {
@@ -1928,7 +1939,7 @@ void arch_perf_update_userpage(struct perf_event_mmap_page *userpg, u64 now)

userpg->cap_user_time = 0;
userpg->cap_user_time_zero = 0;
- userpg->cap_user_rdpmc = x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc;
+ userpg->cap_user_rdpmc = x86_pmu.attr_rdpmc && test_thread_flag(TIF_SECCOMP);
userpg->pmc_width = x86_pmu.cntval_bits;

if (!sched_clock_stable())
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
index e127ddaa2d5a..b74c0400851e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c
@@ -201,12 +201,15 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
struct tss_struct *tss)
{
struct thread_struct *prev, *next;
+ struct thread_info *pi, *ni;

prev = &prev_p->thread;
next = &next_p->thread;

- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP) ^
- test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_BLOCKSTEP)) {
+ pi = task_thread_info(prev_p);
+ ni = task_thread_info(next_p);
+
+ if ((pi->flags & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP) ^ (ni->flags & _TIF_BLOCKSTEP)) {
unsigned long debugctl = get_debugctlmsr();

debugctl &= ~DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF;
@@ -216,13 +219,20 @@ void __switch_to_xtra(struct task_struct *prev_p, struct task_struct *next_p,
update_debugctlmsr(debugctl);
}

- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(prev_p, TIF_NOTSC) ^
- test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_NOTSC)) {
+ if ((pi->flags & (_TIF_NOTSC | _TIF_SECCOMP)) ^
+ (ni->flags & (_TIF_NOTSC | _TIF_SECCOMP))) {
+ extern void perf_change_rdpmc(bool, unsigned long *);
+ unsigned long cr4 = read_cr4();
+
/* prev and next are different */
- if (test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_NOTSC))
- hard_disable_TSC();
+ if (ni->flags & _TIF_NOTSC)
+ cr4 |= X86_CR4_TSD;
else
- hard_enable_TSC();
+ cr4 &= ~X86_CR4_TSD;
+
+ perf_change_rdpmc(!(ni->flags & _TIF_SECCOMP), &cr4);
+
+ write_cr4(cr4);
}

if (test_tsk_thread_flag(next_p, TIF_IO_BITMAP)) {
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