CVE-2024-56589 scsi: hisi_sas: Add cond_resched() for no forced preemption model
A soft lockup in the hisi_sas driver causes CPU stalls and system unavailability when connecting high-performance SAS SSDs.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
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- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-56589?
CVE-2024-56589 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 27 Dec 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: hisi_sas: Add cond_resched() for no forced preemption model
For no forced preemption model kernel, in the scenario where the expander is connected to 12 high performance SAS SSDs, the following call trace may occur:
[ 214.409199][ C240] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#240 stuck for 22s! [irq/149-hisi_sa:3211] [ 214.568533][ C240] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) [ 214.575224][ C240] pc : fput_many+0x8c/0xdc [ 214.579480][ C240] lr : fput+0x1c/0xf0 [ 214.583302][ C240] sp : ffff80002de2b900 [ 214.587298][ C240] x29: ffff80002de2b900 x28: ffff1082aa412000 [ 214.593291][ C240] x27: ffff3062a0348c08 x26: ffff80003a9f6000 [ 214.599284][ C240] x25: ffff1062bbac5c40 x24: 0000000000001000 [ 214.605277][ C240] x23: 000000000000000a x22: 0000000000000001 [ 214.611270][ C240] x21: 0000000000001000 x20: 0000000000000000 [ 214.617262][ C240] x19: ffff3062a41ae580 x18: 0000000000010000 [ 214.623255][ C240] x17: 0000000000000001 x16: ffffdb3a6efe5fc0 [ 214.629248][ C240] x15: ffffffffffffffff x14: 0000000003ffffff [ 214.635241][ C240] x13: 000000000000ffff x12: 000000000000029c [ 214.641234][ C240] x11: 0000000000000006 x10: ffff80003a9f7fd0 [ 214.647226][ C240] x9 : ffffdb3a6f0482fc x8 : 0000000000000001 [ 214.653219][ C240] x7 : 0000000000000002 x6 : 0000000000000080 [ 214.659212][ C240] x5 : ffff55480ee9b000 x4 : fffffde7f94c6554 [ 214.665205][ C240] x3 : 0000000000000002 x2 : 0000000000000020 [ 214.671198][ C240] x1 : 0000000000000021 x0 : ffff3062a41ae5b8 [ 214.677191][ C240] Call trace: [ 214.680320][ C240] fput_many+0x8c/0xdc [ 214.684230][ C240] fput+0x1c/0xf0 [ 214.687707][ C240] aio_complete_rw+0xd8/0x1fc [ 214.692225][ C240] blkdev_bio_end_io+0x98/0x140 [ 214.696917][ C240] bio_endio+0x160/0x1bc [ 214.701001][ C240] blk_update_request+0x1c8/0x3bc [ 214.705867][ C240] scsi_end_request+0x3c/0x1f0 [ 214.710471][ C240] scsi_io_completion+0x7c/0x1a0 [ 214.715249][ C240] scsi_finish_command+0x104/0x140 [ 214.720200][ C240] scsi_softirq_done+0x90/0x180 [ 214.724892][ C240] blk_mq_complete_request+0x5c/0x70 [ 214.730016][ C240] scsi_mq_done+0x48/0xac [ 214.734194][ C240] sas_scsi_task_done+0xbc/0x16c [libsas] [ 214.739758][ C240] slot_complete_v3_hw+0x260/0x760 [hisi_sas_v3_hw] [ 214.746185][ C240] cq_thread_v3_hw+0xbc/0x190 [hisi_sas_v3_hw] [ 214.752179][ C240] irq_thread_fn+0x34/0xa4 [ 214.756435][ C240] irq_thread+0xc4/0x130 [ 214.760520][ C240] kthread+0x108/0x13c [ 214.764430][ C240] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
This is because in the hisi_sas driver, both the hardware interrupt handler and the interrupt thread are executed on the same CPU. In the performance test scenario, function irq_wait_for_interrupt() will always return 0 if lots of interrupts occurs and the CPU will be continuously consumed. As a result, the CPU cannot run the watchdog thread. When the watchdog time exceeds the specified time, call trace occurs.
To fix it, add cond_resched() to execute the watchdog thread.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-56589?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-56589?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-56589 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56589 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-56589, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56589, GHSA-fp39-5r95-hvcc, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56589.