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SubjectRe: PROBLEM: AES cryptoloop corruption under recent -mm kernels
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Am Mit, 2004-01-14 um 21.52 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > I am experiencing data corruption on my AES cryptoloop partition under
> > recent -mm kernels (including 2.6.1-mm3). I am unsure how long this
> > problem has existed, and I am unsure if this problem exists in the
> > mainstream kernel (I can't test it because of an aic7xxx bug in the
> > mainstream kernel).
>
> It exists in the mainstream kernel.
>
> I thought we had this whipped in 2.6.0-mm2, but then I removed the loop
> patches and switched to a new set. I think I'll switch back.
>
> It would be interesting to find out if 2.6.0-mm2 is working OK for you.

FYI: 2.6.0-mm2 fixed a nasty crypto-loop corruption bug for me.
IIRC it was encrypted w/ AES. I did not try 2.6.1-mm3, yet.

Thanks god the corruption could be fixed by running e2fsck over the
encrypted loop device using a 2.4 kernel.
A stock 2.6.0 would crash the machine when trying that.

HTH
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