RHBA-2011:1762 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated scsi-target-utils package that fixes two bugs and adds one
enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The scsi-target-utils package contains the daemon and tools used to set up iSCSI
and The iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER) targets.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, scsi-target-utils could under certain circumstances

terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when the tgt daemon was
stopped. This update modifies the source code so that scsi-target-utils no
longer terminates with a segmentation fault when tgtd is stopped. (BZ#712807)

• Prior to this update, the SCSI target configuration tool (tgt-admin) allowed

only an insufficiently small number of targets to be updated. As a result,
running tgt-admin with the option update ALL failed with an error message that
the target already existed. With this update, tgt-admin has been modified so
that it now successfully processes large numbers of targets. (BZ#736740)

This update also adds the following enhancement:

• This update increases the allowable lengths of scsi_sn and scsi_id to 36

characters to allow the use of globally unique identifiers (GUID) for these
properties. (BZ#679046)

All users of scsi-target-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which fixes these bugs and adds this enhancement.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 679046 - [tgtd] - tgtd doesn't support GUID as scsi_id and scsi_sn parameters' value
• BZ - 712807 - [abrt] scsi-target-utils-1.0.14-2.el6: __list_del: Process /usr/sbin/tgtd was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
• BZ - 736740 - "tgt-admin --update" fails when adding many devices to the configuration file at once

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)