RHBA-2011:0071 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated scsi-target-utils package that fixes multiple bugs is now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The scsi-target-utils package contains the daemon and tools to setup and monitor
targets for The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). Currently, iSCSI
software targets are supported.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, targetadmin (tgtadm) encountered a segmentation fault and the

target daemon (tgtd) could not shut down when users attempted to close an open
connection with ongoing input/output. With this update, tgtadm shuts down the
connection or exits gracefully with an error. (BZ#511002)

• Previously, the target daemon (tgtd) failed under load. With this update,

/var/log/messages contains no more errors and tgtd continues to respond.
(BZ#513241)

• Previously, the target daemon (tgtd) and target admin (tgtadm) supported iSNS,

but tgt-admin and tgtd.conf did not, which made the iSNS setup difficult. This
update rebases the scsi-target-utils to the tgt-1.0.8 release which incorporated
iSNS support in tgtd.conf configuration file parsing. (BZ#627053)

All users of scsi-target-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which resolves these issues.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 511002 - tgtadm segfaults upon "tgtadm --mode connection --op delete"
• BZ - 513241 - tgtd crashes under load
• BZ - 531041 - tgt segfaults on 31st target creation

CVEs

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References

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