Bug 632094 - do not use a semarg in shared-mem for semop calls
Summary: do not use a semarg in shared-mem for semop calls
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: iscsi-initiator-utils
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Mike Christie
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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Depends On: 624344
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-09 07:08 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2010-09-29 09:40 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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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Last Closed: 2010-09-29 09:16:06 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2010:0721 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE iscsi-initiator-utils bug fix update 2010-09-29 09:16:02 UTC

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.
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