Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: run qcrypto_pbkdf2_count_iters in a new thread

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 06:29:49PM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 05/09/2024 01.52, Tiago Pasqualini wrote:
> > CPU time accounting in the kernel has been demonstrated to have a
> > sawtooth pattern[1][2]. This can cause the getrusage system call to
> > not be as accurate as we are expecting, which can cause this calculation
> > to stall.
> > 
> > The kernel discussions shows that this inaccuracy happens when CPU time
> > gets big enough, so this patch changes qcrypto_pbkdf2_count_iters to run
> > in a fresh thread to avoid this inaccuracy. It also adds a sanity check
> > to fail the process if CPU time is not accounted.
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/159231011694.16989.16351419333851309713.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/
> > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221226031010.4079885-1-maxing.lan@bytedance.com/t/#m1c7f2fdc0ea742776a70fd1aa2a2e414c437f534
> > 
> > Resolves: #2398
> > Signed-off-by: Tiago Pasqualini <tiago.pasqualini@canonical.com>
> > ---
> >   crypto/pbkdf.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >   1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

> > +static void *threaded_qcrypto_pbkdf2_count_iters(void *data)
> >   {
> > +    CountItersData *iters_data = (CountItersData *) data;
> > +    QCryptoHashAlgorithm hash = iters_data->hash;
> > +    const uint8_t *key = iters_data->key;
> > +    size_t nkey = iters_data->nkey;
> > +    const uint8_t *salt = iters_data->salt;
> > +    size_t nsalt = iters_data->nsalt;
> > +    size_t nout = iters_data->nout;
> > +    Error **errp = iters_data->errp;
> > +
> >       uint64_t ret = -1;
> >       g_autofree uint8_t *out = g_new(uint8_t, nout);
> >       uint64_t iterations = (1 << 15);
> > @@ -114,7 +131,10 @@ uint64_t qcrypto_pbkdf2_count_iters(QCryptoHashAlgorithm hash,
> >           delta_ms = end_ms - start_ms;
> > -        if (delta_ms > 500) {
> > +        if (delta_ms == 0) { /* sanity check */
> > +            error_setg(errp, "Unable to get accurate CPU usage");
> 
>  Hi!
> 
> While running "make check -j12 SPEED=slow" on a s390x host, I got:
> 
>   3/657 qemu:unit / test-crypto-block          ERROR            0.27s
> killed by signal 6 SIGABRT
> >>> G_TEST_SLOW=1 UBSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1
> MALLOC_PERTURB_=150 G_TEST_BUILDDIR=/home/thuth/s390x/qemu/tests/unit
> MESON_TEST_ITERATION=1 MSAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1:print_stacktrace=1
> ASAN_OPTIONS=halt_on_error=1:abort_on_error=1:print_summary=1
> G_TEST_SRCDIR=/home/thuth/devel/qemu/tests/unit
> /home/thuth/s390x/qemu/tests/unit/test-crypto-block --tap -k
> ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
> ✀ ―――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
> stderr:
> Unexpected error in threaded_qcrypto_pbkdf2_count_iters() at
> ../../devel/qemu/crypto/pbkdf.c:135:
> /home/thuth/s390x/qemu/tests/unit/test-crypto-block: Unable to get accurate
> CPU usage
> 
> (test program exited with status code -6)
> 
> TAP parsing error: Too few tests run (expected 27, got 1)
> ――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――――
> 
> Could we handle this more gracefully, please? I don't think that this should
> fail the unit tests, should it?

This is a scenario that is not supposed to ever happen. It means
we've had two calls to getrusage which returns exactly the same
CPU time. This should be impossible, as we've definitely burnt
lots of CPU between these two calls. Is this reliably reproducable
only on s390x ?

With regards,
Daniel
-- 
|: https://berrange.com      -o-    https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :|
|: https://libvirt.org         -o-            https://fstop138.berrange.com :|
|: https://entangle-photo.org    -o-    https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|