Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: AES cryptoloop corruption under recent -mm kernels | From | Matthias Hentges <> | Date | 15 Jan 2004 03:44:28 +0100 |
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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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