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authorDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2018-01-09 13:17:44 +0100
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2018-01-09 10:07:30 -0800
commitbe95a845cc4402272994ce290e3ad928aff06cb9 (patch)
treec5b83d95fceda25139cce88d111286a43bd5fc30 /lib/test_bpf.c
parentb2157399cc9898260d6031c5bfe45fe137c1fbe7 (diff)
bpf: avoid false sharing of map refcount with max_entries
In addition to commit b2157399cc98 ("bpf: prevent out-of-bounds speculation") also change the layout of struct bpf_map such that false sharing of fast-path members like max_entries is avoided when the maps reference counter is altered. Therefore enforce them to be placed into separate cachelines. pahole dump after change: struct bpf_map { const struct bpf_map_ops * ops; /* 0 8 */ struct bpf_map * inner_map_meta; /* 8 8 */ void * security; /* 16 8 */ enum bpf_map_type map_type; /* 24 4 */ u32 key_size; /* 28 4 */ u32 value_size; /* 32 4 */ u32 max_entries; /* 36 4 */ u32 map_flags; /* 40 4 */ u32 pages; /* 44 4 */ u32 id; /* 48 4 */ int numa_node; /* 52 4 */ bool unpriv_array; /* 56 1 */ /* XXX 7 bytes hole, try to pack */ /* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) --- */ struct user_struct * user; /* 64 8 */ atomic_t refcnt; /* 72 4 */ atomic_t usercnt; /* 76 4 */ struct work_struct work; /* 80 32 */ char name[16]; /* 112 16 */ /* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */ /* size: 128, cachelines: 2, members: 17 */ /* sum members: 121, holes: 1, sum holes: 7 */ }; Now all entries in the first cacheline are read only throughout the life time of the map, set up once during map creation. Overall struct size and number of cachelines doesn't change from the reordering. struct bpf_map is usually first member and embedded in map structs in specific map implementations, so also avoid those members to sit at the end where it could potentially share the cacheline with first map values e.g. in the array since remote CPUs could trigger map updates just as well for those (easily dirtying members like max_entries intentionally as well) while having subsequent values in cache. Quoting from Google's Project Zero blog [1]: Additionally, at least on the Intel machine on which this was tested, bouncing modified cache lines between cores is slow, apparently because the MESI protocol is used for cache coherence [8]. Changing the reference counter of an eBPF array on one physical CPU core causes the cache line containing the reference counter to be bounced over to that CPU core, making reads of the reference counter on all other CPU cores slow until the changed reference counter has been written back to memory. Because the length and the reference counter of an eBPF array are stored in the same cache line, this also means that changing the reference counter on one physical CPU core causes reads of the eBPF array's length to be slow on other physical CPU cores (intentional false sharing). While this doesn't 'control' the out-of-bounds speculation through masking the index as in commit b2157399cc98, triggering a manipulation of the map's reference counter is really trivial, so lets not allow to easily affect max_entries from it. Splitting to separate cachelines also generally makes sense from a performance perspective anyway in that fast-path won't have a cache miss if the map gets pinned, reused in other progs, etc out of control path, thus also avoids unintentional false sharing. [1] https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.ch/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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