# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Dec 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2024-56589, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-56589, GHSA-fp39-5r95-hvcc, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-56589

## 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: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-56589?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-56589 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56589 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-56589 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-56589 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56589/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56589/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56589
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56589
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-56589

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-56589/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.
