[PATCH 1/6] selinux: print sum of chain lengths^2 for hash tables

From: Christian Göttsche
Date: Fri Aug 18 2023 - 11:13:37 EST


Print the sum of chain lengths squared as a metric for hash tables to
provide more insights, similar to avtabs.

While on it add a comma in the avtab message to improve readability of
the output.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 2 +-
security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c | 5 +++++
security/selinux/ss/hashtab.h | 1 +
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 4 ++--
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/avtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/avtab.c
index 86d98a8e291b..955cfe495606 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/avtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/avtab.c
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ void avtab_hash_eval(struct avtab *h, const char *tag)
}

pr_debug("SELinux: %s: %d entries and %d/%d buckets used, "
- "longest chain length %d sum of chain length^2 %llu\n",
+ "longest chain length %d, sum of chain length^2 %llu\n",
tag, h->nel, slots_used, h->nslot, max_chain_len,
chain2_len_sum);
}
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
index ac5cdddfbf78..c05d8346a94a 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c
@@ -107,10 +107,12 @@ int hashtab_map(struct hashtab *h,
void hashtab_stat(struct hashtab *h, struct hashtab_info *info)
{
u32 i, chain_len, slots_used, max_chain_len;
+ u64 chain2_len_sum;
struct hashtab_node *cur;

slots_used = 0;
max_chain_len = 0;
+ chain2_len_sum = 0;
for (i = 0; i < h->size; i++) {
cur = h->htable[i];
if (cur) {
@@ -123,11 +125,14 @@ void hashtab_stat(struct hashtab *h, struct hashtab_info *info)

if (chain_len > max_chain_len)
max_chain_len = chain_len;
+
+ chain2_len_sum += (u64)chain_len * chain_len;
}
}

info->slots_used = slots_used;
info->max_chain_len = max_chain_len;
+ info->chain2_len_sum = chain2_len_sum;
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEBUG */

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.h b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.h
index f9713b56d3d0..09b0a3744937 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.h
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ struct hashtab {
struct hashtab_info {
u32 slots_used;
u32 max_chain_len;
+ u64 chain2_len_sum;
};

/*
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
index 28bd75dc6f71..84f02d4f8093 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
@@ -684,9 +684,9 @@ static void hash_eval(struct hashtab *h, const char *hash_name)
struct hashtab_info info;

hashtab_stat(h, &info);
- pr_debug("SELinux: %s: %d entries and %d/%d buckets used, longest chain length %d\n",
+ pr_debug("SELinux: %s: %d entries and %d/%d buckets used, longest chain length %d, sum of chain length^2 %llu\n",
hash_name, h->nel, info.slots_used, h->size,
- info.max_chain_len);
+ info.max_chain_len, info.chain2_len_sum);
}

static void symtab_hash_eval(struct symtab *s)
--
2.40.1