Bug 508782

Summary:	iscsid/iscsistart segfault due to bad cast of conn_context data
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Mike Christie <mchristi>
Component:	iscsi-initiator-utils	Assignee:	Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.4	CC:	bmr, coughlan, ctatman, emcnabb, martinez, mchristi, mgahagan, rlerch, sghosh, shyam_iyer, syeghiay, tao, wwlinuxengineering
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	OtherQA
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	the iscsi code contained a bad cast of a data structure. This would lead to a segmentation fault while logging in or out of an iSCSI target. With the logic now corrected, these segmentation faults do not occur.	Story Points:	---
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Description Mike Christie 2009-06-29 20:21:51 UTC

Description of problem:


iscsid/iscsistart will segault due to a bad cast of the conn context data struct to the data pointer. This patch
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mnc/open-iscsi.git;a=commit;h=b176b84381ed92152f7d471d19642f1a3ac3f7f3
fixes the problem.

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Comment 10 Mike Christie 2009-07-09 17:07:48 UTC

Fixed in iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.871-0.8.el5:
http://people.redhat.com/mchristi/iscsi/rhel5.4/iscsi-initiator-utils/

Comment 13 Evan McNabb 2009-07-13 19:36:49 UTC

Dell, can you please test this using the RPMs in comment #10?

Comment 14 Shyam kumar Iyer 2009-07-14 11:21:51 UTC

Yes the issue is fixed with the rpm in provided.

Comment 15 Evan McNabb 2009-07-14 13:25:50 UTC

Thank you for testing.

Comment 20 Ruediger Landmann 2009-08-26 12:01:58 UTC

Release note added. If any revisions are required, please set the 
"requires_release_notes" flag to "?" and edit the "Release Notes" field accordingly.
All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.

New Contents:
the iscsi code contained a bad cast of a data structure. This would lead
to a segmentation fault while logging in or out of an iSCSI target. With
the logic now corrected, these segmentation faults do not occur.

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:31:23 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1368.html