{"cve":"CVE-2024-56701","nvd":{"published":"2024-12-28T10:15:17.620","modified":"2026-06-17T08:12:46.787","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/pseries: Fix dtl_access_lock to be a rw_semaphore\n\nThe dtl_access_lock needs to be a rw_sempahore, a sleeping lock, because\nthe code calls kmalloc() while holding it, which can sleep:\n\n  # echo 1 > /proc/powerpc/vcpudispatch_stats\n  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:337\n  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 199, name: sh\n  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n  3 locks held by sh/199:\n   #0: c00000000a0743f8 (sb_writers#3){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: vfs_write+0x324/0x438\n   #1: c0000000028c7058 (dtl_enable_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: vcpudispatch_stats_write+0xd4/0x5f4\n   #2: c0000000028c70b8 (dtl_access_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: vcpudispatch_stats_write+0x220/0x5f4\n  CPU: 0 PID: 199 Comm: sh Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4 #152\n  Hardware name: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu) POWER9 (raw) 0x4e1202 0xf000005 of:SLOF,HEAD hv:linux,kvm pSeries\n  Call Trace:\n    dump_stack_lvl+0x130/0x148 (unreliable)\n    __might_resched+0x174/0x410\n    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x340/0x3d0\n    alloc_dtl_buffers+0x124/0x1ac\n    vcpudispatch_stats_write+0x2a8/0x5f4\n    proc_reg_write+0xf4/0x150\n    vfs_write+0xfc/0x438\n    ksys_write+0x88/0x148\n    system_call_exception+0x1c4/0x5a0\n    system_call_common+0xf4/0x258","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/525e18f1ba7c2b098c8ba587fb397efb34a6574c","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6956c0e7346ce1bbfc726755aa8da10d26e84276","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a246daa26b717e755ccc9061f47f7cd1c0b358dd","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b125d0cf1adde7b2b47d7337fed7e9133eea3463","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cadae3a45d23aa4f6485938a67cbc47aaaa25e38"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:57:56.913276502+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-56701","score":0.00208,"percentile":0.10897,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}