[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#502845: linux-image-2.6.32-1-amd64 / open-iscsi amd64 login hang

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:31:17PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:21:46AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 08:23:12PM +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > > > > Something _is_ broken - I am very successful building up open-iscsi/iscsitarget
> > > > > pairs on i386 - as soon as the initiator (open-iscsi) is on amd64 the login
> > > > > hangs forever ... No matter whether the target is on the same machine
> > > > > or on a different machine ...
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, it is. The iscsi_uevent structure defined in scsi/iscsi_if.h
> > > > suffers of the 64-bit-allignment-desease on i386.
> > > > 
> > > > Also please not that this interface is officialy _not_ exported.
> > > 
> > > So? What would be the correct state? Wontfix? Forwarded-UpStream?
> > 
> > If you want to get this fixed in the kernel then please report this
> > upstream at <https://bugzilla.kernel.org> or on an appropriate mailing
> > list.  If it's accepted as a real bug and fixed upstream then we can
> > backport the fix.
> 
> The bug has been confirmnd on the open-iscsi mailingliste and reported
> to be on the low priority fixlist. So basically open-iscsi is broken in 
> Debian with a amd64 kernel and 32 bit userspace with no solution.

Adding Debian open-iscsi maintainers to CC.

Since according to upstream this is unlikey to be fixed for the Squeeze
kernel, maybe you should at least document in the open-iscsi package?

Cheers,
        Moritz