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2011-02-12	[SCSI] target: fix use after free detected by SLUB poison	Nicholas Bellinger	1	-27/+65
	This patch moves a large number of memory release paths inside of the configfs callback target_core_hba_item_ops->release() called from within fs/configfs/item.c: config_item_cleanup() context. This patch resolves the SLUB 'Poison overwritten' warnings. Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-01-14	[SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6	Nicholas Bellinger	1	-0/+996
	LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the following feature set: High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD support. Advanced SCSI feature set: * Persistent Reservations (PRs) * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA) * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S) * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2) * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2) * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx) Multiprotocol target plugins Storage media independence: * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc. Standards compliance: * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720) * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig. [jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.] Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>