Issued:

2011-12-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:1762 - scsi-target-utils bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

scsi-target-utils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• scsi-target-utils-debuginfo-1.0.14-4.el6.i686.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-1.0.14-4.el6.src.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-debuginfo-1.0.14-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-1.0.14-4.el6.i686.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-1.0.14-4.el6.ppc64.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-1.0.14-4.el6.x86_64.rpm
• scsi-target-utils-debuginfo-1.0.14-4.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 679046
• This content is not included.BZ - 712807
• This content is not included.BZ - 736740

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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