This bug has been copied from bug #503489 and has been proposed to be backported to 4.8 z-stream (EUS).
Committed in 89.0.11
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/RHSA-2009-1438.html
Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team. New Contents: A locking issue caused the qla2xxx ioctl module to hang after encountering errors. This locking issue has been corrected. This ioctl module is used by the QLogic SAN management tools, such as SANsurfer and scli.