Dennis Marttinen 96707ff581 ceph: set superblock s_magic for IMA fsmagic matching
commit 72386d5245b249f5a0a8fabb881df7ad947b8ea4 upstream.

The CephFS kernel driver forgets to set the filesystem magic signature in
its superblock. As a result, IMA policy rules based on fsmagic matching do
not apply as intended. This causes a major performance regression in Talos
Linux [1] when mounting CephFS volumes, such as when deploying Rook Ceph
[2]. Talos Linux ships a hardened kernel with the following IMA policy
(irrelevant lines omitted):

[...]
dont_measure fsmagic=0xc36400 # CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC
[...]
measure func=FILE_CHECK mask=^MAY_READ euid=0
measure func=FILE_CHECK mask=^MAY_READ uid=0
[...]

Currently, IMA compares 0xc36400 == 0x0 for CephFS files, resulting in all
files opened with O_RDONLY or O_RDWR getting measured with SHA512 on every
open(2):

10 69990c87e8af323d47e2d6ae4... ima-ng sha512:<hash> /data/cephfs/test-file

Since O_WRONLY is rare, this results in an order of magnitude lower
performance than expected for practically all file operations. Properly
setting CEPH_SUPER_MAGIC in the CephFS superblock resolves the regression.

Tests performed on a 3x replicated Ceph v19.3.0 cluster across three
i5-7200U nodes each equipped with one Micron 7400 MAX M.2 disk (BlueStore)
and Gigabit ethernet, on Talos Linux v1.10.2:

FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 500 Files, Empty
Files/s > Higher Is Better
6.12.27-talos . 16.6  |====
+twelho patch . 208.4 |====================================================

FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 500 Files, 1KB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
6.12.27-talos . 15.6  |=======
+twelho patch . 118.6 |====================================================

FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 500 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
6.12.27-talos . 12.7 |===============
+twelho patch . 44.7 |=====================================================

IO500 [3] 2fcd6d6 results (benchmarks within variance omitted):

| IO500 benchmark   | 6.12.27-talos  | +twelho patch  | Speedup   |
|-------------------|----------------|----------------|-----------|
| mdtest-easy-write | 0.018524 kIOPS | 1.135027 kIOPS | 6027.33 % |
| mdtest-hard-write | 0.018498 kIOPS | 0.973312 kIOPS | 5161.71 % |
| ior-easy-read     | 0.064727 GiB/s | 0.155324 GiB/s | 139.97 %  |
| mdtest-hard-read  | 0.018246 kIOPS | 0.780800 kIOPS | 4179.29 % |

This applies outside of synthetic benchmarks as well, for example, the time
to rsync a 55 MiB directory with ~12k of mostly small files drops from an
unusable 10m5s to a reasonable 26s (23x the throughput).

[1]: https://www.talos.dev/
[2]: https://www.talos.dev/v1.10/kubernetes-guides/configuration/ceph-with-rook/
[3]: https://github.com/IO500/io500

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dennis Marttinen <twelho@welho.tech>
Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-27 11:08:47 +01:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-06-19 15:28:47 +02:00

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