diff -aurp open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsid.c open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsid.c
--- open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsid.c	2011-11-01 19:15:46.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsid.c	2011-11-01 19:17:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -221,6 +221,9 @@ static int sync_session(void *data, stru
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (!iscsi_sysfs_session_user_created(info->sid))
+		return 0;
+
 	memset(&rec, 0, sizeof(node_rec_t));
 	/*
 	 * We might get the local ip address for software. We do not
diff -aurp open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsi_sysfs.c open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsi_sysfs.c
--- open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsi_sysfs.c	2011-11-01 19:15:46.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsi_sysfs.c	2011-11-01 19:17:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -231,6 +231,29 @@ void iscsi_sysfs_get_negotiated_session_
 		      &conf->MaxOutstandingR2T);
 }
 
+/*
+ * iscsi_sysfs_session_user_created - return if session was setup by userspace
+ * @sid: id of session to test
+ *
+ * Returns -1 if we could not tell due to kernel not supporting the
+ * feature. 0 is returned if kernel created it. And 1 is returned
+ * if userspace created it.
+ */
+int iscsi_sysfs_session_user_created(int sid)
+{
+	char id[NAME_SIZE];
+	pid_t pid;
+
+	snprintf(id, sizeof(id), ISCSI_SESSION_ID, sid);
+	if (sysfs_get_int(id, ISCSI_SESSION_SUBSYS, "creator", &pid))
+		return -1;
+
+	if (pid == -1)
+		return 0;
+	else
+		return 1;
+}
+
 uint32_t iscsi_sysfs_get_host_no_from_sid(uint32_t sid, int *err)
 {
 	struct sysfs_device *session_dev, *host_dev;
diff -aurp open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsi_sysfs.h open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsi_sysfs.h
--- open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i/usr/iscsi_sysfs.h	2011-11-01 19:15:46.000000000 -0500
+++ open-iscsi-2.0-872-rc4-bnx2i.work/usr/iscsi_sysfs.h	2011-11-01 19:17:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ extern struct iscsi_transport *iscsi_sys
 extern struct iscsi_transport *iscsi_sysfs_get_transport_by_sid(uint32_t sid);
 extern struct iscsi_transport *iscsi_sysfs_get_transport_by_name(char *transport_name);
 extern int iscsi_sysfs_session_supports_nop(int sid);
+extern int iscsi_sysfs_session_user_created(int sid);
 
 extern struct list_head transports;