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apparmor: Optimize retrieving current task secid

When running will-it-scale[1] open2_process testcase, in a system with a
large number of cores, a bottleneck in retrieving the current task
secid was detected:

27.73% ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
27.72% 0.01% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] security_current_getsecid_subj - -
27.71% security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
27.71% 27.68% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apparmor_current_getsecid_subj - -
19.94% __refcount_add (inlined);__refcount_inc (inlined);refcount_inc (inlined);kref_get (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_label (inlined);aa_get_current_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)
7.72% __refcount_sub_and_test (inlined);__refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);refcount_dec_and_test (inlined);kref_put (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);aa_put_label (inlined);apparmor_current_getsecid_subj;security_current_getsecid_subj;ima_file_check;do_open (inlined);path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_x64 (inlined);do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (inlined);__libc_open64 (inlined)

A large amount of time was spent in the refcount.

The most common case is that the current task label is available, and
no need to take references for that one. That is exactly what the
critical section helpers do, make use of them.

New perf output:

39.12% vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
39.07% 0.13% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] do_dentry_open - -
39.05% do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
38.71% 0.01% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] security_file_open - -
38.70% security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)
38.65% 38.60% [kernel.vmlinux] [k] apparmor_file_open - -
38.65% apparmor_file_open;security_file_open;do_dentry_open;vfs_open;path_openat;do_filp_open;do_sys_openat2;__x64_sys_openat;do_syscall_64;entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe;__libc_open64 (inlined)

The result is a throughput improvement of around 20% across the board
on the open2 testcase. On more realistic workloads the impact should
be much less.

[1] https://github.com/antonblanchard/will-it-scale

Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>

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Vinicius Costa Gomes and committed by
John Johansen
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security/apparmor/lsm.c
··· 766 766 767 767 static void apparmor_current_getsecid_subj(u32 *secid) 768 768 { 769 - struct aa_label *label = aa_get_current_label(); 769 + struct aa_label *label = __begin_current_label_crit_section(); 770 770 *secid = label->secid; 771 - aa_put_label(label); 771 + __end_current_label_crit_section(label); 772 772 } 773 773 774 774 static void apparmor_task_getsecid_obj(struct task_struct *p, u32 *secid)