In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: implement lockless setsockopt(SO_PEEK_OFF)

syzbot reported a lockdep violation [1] involving af_unix
support of SO_PEEK_OFF.

Since SO_PEEK_OFF is inherently not thread safe (it uses a per-socket
sk_peek_off field), there is really no point to enforce a pointless
thread safety in the kernel.

After this patch :

- setsockopt(SO_PEEK_OFF) no longer acquires the socket lock.

- skb_consume_udp() no longer has to acquire the socket lock.

- af_unix no longer needs a special version of sk_set_peek_off(),
  because it does not lock u->iolock anymore.

As a followup, we could replace prot->set_peek_off to be a boolean
and avoid an indirect call, since we always use sk_set_peek_off().

[1]

WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-00267-g0f1dd5e91e2b #0 Not tainted

syz-executor.2/30025 is trying to acquire lock:
 ffff8880765e7d80 (&u->iolock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: unix_set_peek_off+0x26/0xa0 net/unix/af_unix.c:789

but task is already holding lock:
 ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1691 [inline]
 ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sockopt_lock_sock net/core/sock.c:1060 [inline]
 ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sk_setsockopt+0xe52/0x3360 net/core/sock.c:1193

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}:
        lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x530 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
        lock_sock_nested+0x48/0x100 net/core/sock.c:3524
        lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1691 [inline]
        __unix_dgram_recvmsg+0x1275/0x12c0 net/unix/af_unix.c:2415
        sock_recvmsg_nosec+0x18e/0x1d0 net/socket.c:1046
        ____sys_recvmsg+0x3c0/0x470 net/socket.c:2801
        ___sys_recvmsg net/socket.c:2845 [inline]
        do_recvmmsg+0x474/0xae0 net/socket.c:2939
        __sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3018 [inline]
        __do_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3041 [inline]
        __se_sys_recvmmsg net/socket.c:3034 [inline]
        __x64_sys_recvmmsg+0x199/0x250 net/socket.c:3034
       do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x240
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77

-> #0 (&u->iolock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
        check_prev_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3134 [inline]
        check_prevs_add kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3253 [inline]
        validate_chain+0x18ca/0x58e0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3869
        __lock_acquire+0x1345/0x1fd0 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5137
        lock_acquire+0x1e3/0x530 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5754
        __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:608 [inline]
        __mutex_lock+0x136/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
        unix_set_peek_off+0x26/0xa0 net/unix/af_unix.c:789
       sk_setsockopt+0x207e/0x3360
        do_sock_setsockopt+0x2fb/0x720 net/socket.c:2307
        __sys_setsockopt+0x1ad/0x250 net/socket.c:2334
        __do_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2343 [inline]
        __se_sys_setsockopt net/socket.c:2340 [inline]
        __x64_sys_setsockopt+0xb5/0xd0 net/socket.c:2340
       do_syscall_64+0xf9/0x240
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6f/0x77

other info that might help us debug this:

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(sk_lock-AF_UNIX);
                               lock(&u->iolock);
                               lock(sk_lock-AF_UNIX);
  lock(&u->iolock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

1 lock held by syz-executor.2/30025:
  #0: ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: lock_sock include/net/sock.h:1691 [inline]
  #0: ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sockopt_lock_sock net/core/sock.c:1060 [inline]
  #0: ffff8880765e7930 (sk_lock-AF_UNIX){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: sk_setsockopt+0xe52/0x3360 net/core/sock.c:1193

stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 30025 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4-syzkaller-00267-g0f1dd5e91e2b #0
Hardware name: Google Google C
---truncated---

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56667da7399eb19af857e30f41bea89aa6fa812c [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/897f75e2cde8a5f9f7529b55249af1fa4248c83b [No types assigned]