We found a data race involving the audit_cmd_mutex.owner variable. We think this bug is concerning because audit_ctl_owner_current is used at a location that controls the scheduling of tasks shown here. Please let us know what you think.

Thanks!

write to 0xffffffff881d0710 of 8 bytes by task 6541 on cpu 0:
 audit_ctl_lock kernel/audit.c:237 [inline]
 audit_receive+0x77/0x2940 kernel/audit.c:1557
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x652/0x730 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
 netlink_sendmsg+0x643/0x740 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:705 [inline]
 sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:725 [inline]
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x348/0x4c0 net/socket.c:2413
 ___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2467 [inline]
 __sys_sendmsg+0x159/0x1f0 net/socket.c:2496
 __do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2505 [inline]
 __se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2503 [inline]
 __x64_sys_sendmsg+0x47/0x50 net/socket.c:2503
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

read to 0xffffffff881d0710 of 8 bytes by task 6542 on cpu 1:
 audit_ctl_owner_current kernel/audit.c:258 [inline]
 audit_log_start+0x127/0x690 kernel/audit.c:1868
 common_lsm_audit+0x61/0xee0 security/lsm_audit.c:457
 slow_avc_audit+0xcb/0x100 security/selinux/avc.c:796
 avc_audit security/selinux/include/avc.h:135 [inline]
 avc_has_perm+0x114/0x140 security/selinux/avc.c:1193
 selinux_socket_create+0xf1/0x170 security/selinux/hooks.c:4570
 security_socket_create+0x58/0xb0 security/security.c:2185
 __sock_create+0xe2/0x530 net/socket.c:1423
 sock_create net/socket.c:1519 [inline]
 __sys_socket+0xb8/0x210 net/socket.c:1561
 __do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1570 [inline]
 __se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1568 [inline]
 __x64_sys_socket+0x42/0x50 net/socket.c:1568
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 6542 Comm: syz-executor2-n Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5+ #107
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014

Input CPU 0:
r0 = socket$nl_audit(0x10, 0x3, 0x9)
sendmsg$AUDIT_USER_AVC(r0, &(0x7f0000000200)={0x0, 0x0, &(0x7f00000001c0)={&(0x7f0000000240)=ANY=[], 0x74}}, 0x0)

Input CPU 1:
r0 = socket$inet_dccp(0x2, 0x6, 0x0)
connect$inet(r0, &(0x7f0000000000)={0x2, 0x0, @private=0xa010101}, 0x10)