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Bug 632094

Summary: do not use a semarg in shared-mem for semop calls
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: iscsi-initiator-utilsAssignee: Mike Christie <mchristi>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 5.5CC: bdonahue, coughlan, mchristi, nmurray, pm-eus, tao, wmealing
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Previously, iscsid shared the 'semarg' structure between multiple devices and thus caused a deadlock to occur when logging was initiated. With this update, each process is assigned its own structure and deadlocks no longer occurs during the logging process.
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Bug Depends On: 624344    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-09 07:08:34 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #624344 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 3 Mike Christie 2010-09-21 19:48:35 UTC
This is fixed in
http://people.redhat.com/mchristi/iscsi/rhel5.5.z/

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2010-09-29 09:16:06 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-2010-0721.html

Comment 6 Martin Prpič 2010-09-29 09:40:22 UTC
    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:
Previously, iscsid shared the 'semarg' structure between multiple devices and thus caused a deadlock to occur when logging was initiated. With this update, each process is assigned its own structure and deadlocks no longer occurs during the logging process.