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In article <1071570648.3528.50.camel@localhost>, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote: | I get random crashes/corruption/ init kills when I use cryptoloop on | this highmem enabled ppc machine. | | Applying the loop-* patches at | http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out | | seem to fix this problem (at least I did not get any crash due to | cryptoloop in the last 2 days) Thank you for identifying this. I have been having perfect results iwth the systems I have running cryptoloop, but they are both small. Now I not only know why I don't have problems, I have a way to prevent problems. Hopefully this will get into 2.6.0-final, since it fixes a hard fail case. | | Steps to reproduce: | | dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1M count=100 | losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /file | Password: | mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0 | mount /dev/loop0 /mnt | cd /mnt | dd if=/dev/zero of=bla | | gives you nice unpredictable crashes. | | | Soeren | | - | To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in | the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org | More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html | Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | -- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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