[stgt] Strange sendtargets behaviour

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:39:06 +0100
Chris Webb <chris at arachsys.com> wrote:

> Chris Webb <chris at arachsys.com> writes:
> 
> > I've found a reliable way to reproduce my sendtargets corruption. It
> > occurs both with the patched tgtd and the original, and happens even with
> > open-iscsi's discovery.sendtargets.iscsi.MaxRecvDataSegmentLength set as
> > small as 16384, so my previous large value isn't implicated.
> 
> I've done some more thorough testing on this. Our standard target names are
> quite long and look like:
> 
>   iqn.2008-03.com.elastichosts:dd752643-efa2-415c-bee8-089d9caed0f0:ff471b04-fd8e-4283-a627-e104d2cb55c4
> 
> The sendtargets buffer corruption happens after repeated login/logout when
> 55 or more of these are exported, but not when 54 or fewer are exported. If
> I export 54 targets everything works, but if I replace the 'elastichosts'
> with a longer 'elastichosts1234', I can reproduce the corruption with just
> those 54 targets---so the trigger is total number of chars rather than just
> number of targets.
> 
> As far as I can tell, this very strongly suggests this is some sort of
> buffer overrun issue within tgtd. Is there anything more I can usefully do
> to help pin this one down?

Can you reproduce this without authentication (i.e. you don't set any
password to all the targets)?
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