Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:02:46 +0300 | From | Jari Ruusu <> | Subject | Re: encrypted swap on loop in 2.4.10-pre12? |
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"steve j. kondik" wrote: > i've been using encrypted swap over loopdev using the new cryptoapi > patches. i just built a 2.4.10-pre12 kernel and i got a panic doing > mkswap on the loopdev. the mkswap process becomes unkillable after this > and never finishes. this is repeatable everytime. i've had no problems > whatsoever until this kernel even under high load.. any ideas? :>
Cryptoapi can't be used to encrypt swap. It has nasties like sleeping in make_request_fn() and potential memory allocation deadlock.
loop-AES works with encrypted swap. Announcement is here:
http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2001-09/msg00006.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-crypto&m=99953544804810&w=2
Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
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