apparmor: Use a memory pool instead per-CPU caches

The get_buffers() macro may provide one or two buffers to the caller.
Those buffers are pre-allocated on init for each CPU. By default it
allocates
	2* 2 * MAX_PATH * POSSIBLE_CPU

which equals 64KiB on a system with 4 CPUs or 1MiB with 64 CPUs and so
on.

Replace the per-CPU buffers with a common memory pool which is shared
across all CPUs. The pool grows on demand and never shrinks. The pool
starts with two (UP) or four (SMP) elements. By using this pool it is
possible to request a buffer and keeping preemption enabled which avoids
the hack in profile_transition().

It has been pointed out by Tetsuo Handa that GFP_KERNEL allocations for
small amount of memory do not fail. In order not to have an endless
retry, __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL is passed (so the memory allocation is not
repeated until success) and retried once hoping that in the meantime a
buffer has been returned to the pool. Since now NULL is possible all
allocation paths check the buffer pointer and return -ENOMEM on failure.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/security/apparmor/file.c b/security/apparmor/file.c
index d0afed9ebd0e..7b424e73a8c7 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/file.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/file.c
@@ -336,12 +336,14 @@ int aa_path_perm(const char *op, struct aa_label *label,
 
 	flags |= PATH_DELEGATE_DELETED | (S_ISDIR(cond->mode) ? PATH_IS_DIR :
 								0);
-	get_buffers(buffer);
+	buffer = aa_get_buffer();
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 	error = fn_for_each_confined(label, profile,
 			profile_path_perm(op, profile, path, buffer, request,
 					  cond, flags, &perms));
 
-	put_buffers(buffer);
+	aa_put_buffer(buffer);
 
 	return error;
 }
@@ -479,12 +481,18 @@ int aa_path_link(struct aa_label *label, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	int error;
 
 	/* buffer freed below, lname is pointer in buffer */
-	get_buffers(buffer, buffer2);
+	buffer = aa_get_buffer();
+	buffer2 = aa_get_buffer();
+	error = -ENOMEM;
+	if (!buffer || !buffer2)
+		goto out;
+
 	error = fn_for_each_confined(label, profile,
 			profile_path_link(profile, &link, buffer, &target,
 					  buffer2, &cond));
-	put_buffers(buffer, buffer2);
-
+out:
+	aa_put_buffer(buffer);
+	aa_put_buffer(buffer2);
 	return error;
 }
 
@@ -528,7 +536,9 @@ static int __file_path_perm(const char *op, struct aa_label *label,
 		return 0;
 
 	flags = PATH_DELEGATE_DELETED | (S_ISDIR(cond.mode) ? PATH_IS_DIR : 0);
-	get_buffers(buffer);
+	buffer = aa_get_buffer();
+	if (!buffer)
+		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* check every profile in task label not in current cache */
 	error = fn_for_each_not_in_set(flabel, label, profile,
@@ -557,7 +567,7 @@ static int __file_path_perm(const char *op, struct aa_label *label,
 	if (!error)
 		update_file_ctx(file_ctx(file), label, request);
 
-	put_buffers(buffer);
+	aa_put_buffer(buffer);
 
 	return error;
 }