Re: tgtadm delete without lld specified?

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On 04/20/2014 05:20 AM, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 16:40:09 -0700
> Lee Duncan <lduncan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I am debugging a problem on SUSE 11 SP3, with tgt 0.9.10.
>>
>> I am creating two iSCSI targets using targets.conf. Neither target
>> specifies a low-level driver, and there is no default-driver specified
>> either.
>>
>> The targets looks something like this:
>>
>> <target iqn....t1>
>>     backing-store /dev/some-device
>>     vendor_id someid
>>     product_id volume-num1
>> </target>
>>
>> I create two of these targets, t1, and t2, then I using open-iscsi to
>> login to the first target, t1, then logout.
>>
>> Then I run "tgt-admin --delete "iqn...t1". As you know, this just runs
>> "tgtadm --op delete --mode target --tid=<tid-of-t1>". No low-level
>> driver is specified.
>>
>> Then I try to login to the second target, t2, using open-iscsi, and
>> the login hangs. This is because tgtd has died.
>>
>> Further analysis shows that tgtd dies because when it tries to look up
>> the iscsi target structure for t2, the t1 entry is still around. And
>> when the code tries to get the name of this no-longer-existing target,
>> it gets NULL and tries to compare that with the iqn name being
>> added. This makes strcmp() very unhappy.
> 
> Surely, sounds a bug. The latest code still has this bug?

I will test the latest code, then submit a patch if the problem still
exists there.

> 
> 
>> I find that if I manually specify the lld either on the command line
>> of "tgtadm", or in one of the config files, then this problem goes
>> away.
>>
>> It looks like when I don't specify any LLD the upper-level code
>> defaults to low-lever-driver zero! This seems like a bug to me.
>>
>> Shouldn't the "tgtadm" command enforce specifying the low-level
>> driver?
> 
> I guess that tgtadm command should use 'iscsi' by default if the
> low-level driver is not specified.
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