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Commit 967d7ba8 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook
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selftests/seccomp: Add simple seccomp overhead benchmark



This attempts to produce a comparison between native getpid() and a
RET_ALLOW-filtered getpid(), to measure the overhead cost of using
seccomp().

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
parent a33b2d03
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TEST_GEN_PROGS := seccomp_bpf
CFLAGS += -Wl,-no-as-needed -Wall
LDFLAGS += -lpthread
all:

include ../lib.mk

$(TEST_GEN_PROGS): seccomp_bpf.c ../kselftest_harness.h
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $< -o $@
.PHONY: all clean

BINARIES := seccomp_bpf seccomp_benchmark
CFLAGS += -Wl,-no-as-needed -Wall

seccomp_bpf: seccomp_bpf.c ../kselftest_harness.h
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -lpthread $< -o $@

TEST_PROGS += $(BINARIES)
EXTRA_CLEAN := $(BINARIES)

all: $(BINARIES)
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/*
 * Strictly speaking, this is not a test. But it can report during test
 * runs so relative performace can be measured.
 */
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <assert.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <linux/filter.h>
#include <linux/seccomp.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

#define ARRAY_SIZE(a)    (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))

unsigned long long timing(clockid_t clk_id, unsigned long long samples)
{
	pid_t pid, ret;
	unsigned long long i;
	struct timespec start, finish;

	pid = getpid();
	assert(clock_gettime(clk_id, &start) == 0);
	for (i = 0; i < samples; i++) {
		ret = syscall(__NR_getpid);
		assert(pid == ret);
	}
	assert(clock_gettime(clk_id, &finish) == 0);

	i = finish.tv_sec - start.tv_sec;
	i *= 1000000000;
	i += finish.tv_nsec - start.tv_nsec;

	printf("%lu.%09lu - %lu.%09lu = %llu\n",
		finish.tv_sec, finish.tv_nsec,
		start.tv_sec, start.tv_nsec,
		i);

	return i;
}

unsigned long long calibrate(void)
{
	unsigned long long i;

	printf("Calibrating reasonable sample size...\n");

	for (i = 5; ; i++) {
		unsigned long long samples = 1 << i;

		/* Find something that takes more than 5 seconds to run. */
		if (timing(CLOCK_REALTIME, samples) / 1000000000ULL > 5)
			return samples;
	}
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	struct sock_filter filter[] = {
		BPF_STMT(BPF_RET|BPF_K, SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW),
	};
	struct sock_fprog prog = {
		.len = (unsigned short)ARRAY_SIZE(filter),
		.filter = filter,
	};
	long ret;
	unsigned long long samples;
	unsigned long long native, filtered;

	if (argc > 1)
		samples = strtoull(argv[1], NULL, 0);
	else
		samples = calibrate();

	printf("Benchmarking %llu samples...\n", samples);

	native = timing(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, samples) / samples;
	printf("getpid native: %llu ns\n", native);

	ret = prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0);
	assert(ret == 0);

	ret = prctl(PR_SET_SECCOMP, SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER, &prog);
	assert(ret == 0);

	filtered = timing(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, samples) / samples;
	printf("getpid RET_ALLOW: %llu ns\n", filtered);

	printf("Estimated seccomp overhead per syscall: %llu ns\n",
		filtered - native);

	if (filtered == native)
		printf("Trying running again with more samples.\n");

	return 0;
}