sysctl: Improve the sysctl sanity checks
- Stop validating subdirectories now that we only register leaf tables
- Cleanup and improve the duplicate filename check.
* Run the duplicate filename check under the sysctl_lock to guarantee
we never add duplicate names.
* Reduce the duplicate filename check to nearly O(M*N) where M is the
number of entries in tthe table we are registering and N is the
number of entries in the directory before we got there.
- Move the duplicate filename check into it's own function and call
it directtly from __register_sysctl_table
- Kill the config option as the sanity checks are now cheap enough
the config option is unnecessary. The original reason for the config
option was because we had a huge table used to verify the proc filename
to binary sysctl mapping. That table has now evolved into the binary_sysctl
translation layer and is no longer part of the sysctl_check code.
- Tighten up the permission checks. Guarnateeing that files only have read
or write permissions.
- Removed redudant check for parents having a procname as now everything has
a procname.
- Generalize the backtrace logic so that we print a backtrace from
any failure of __register_sysctl_table that was not caused by
a memmory allocation failure. The backtrace allows us to track
down who erroneously registered a sysctl table.
Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=y):
make-dummies 0 999 -> 12s
rmmod dummy -> 0.08s
Bechmark before (CONFIG_SYSCTL_CHECK=n):
make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.7s
rmmod dummy -> 0.06s
make-dummies 0 99999 -> 1m13s
rmmod dummy -> 0.38s
Benchmark after:
make-dummies 0 999 -> 0.65s
rmmod dummy -> 0.055s
make-dummies 0 9999 -> 1m10s
rmmod dummy -> 0.39s
The sysctl sanity checks now impose no measurable cost.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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