Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:55:16 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: crypto configuration / dependencies broken |
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On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:58:52 -0400 Celejar wrote:
> I'm having a pretty bizarre problem with my kernel crypto > configuration. I need support for a bog standard LUKS (aes / > cbc-essiv:sha256) / cryptsetup installation, but even after I enable > virtually everything in the crypto section of the kernel configs, cbc > fails to load. All the relevant modules are exist (dm-mod, dm-crypt, > crypto_blkcipher, crypto_algapi, crypto_hash, aes_generic, > sha256_generic), but even after modprobing / insmoding > everything, /proc/crypto shows that aes and sha is there, but not cbc. > > The problem has been reproduced (using my kernel config) by Jonas > Meurer, the Debian cryptsetup maintainer, so it's not just me ;). > We've tried numerous different kernel versions in the .30 / .31 range. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=541835 > > Does this mean that something else somewhere in the kernel needs to be > configured but isn't, and the necessary dependency isn't properly > declared? > > My config is at: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=45;filename=config-2.6.31-rc6-lizzie-00042-gb2add73;att=1;bug=541835 > > [I'm not subscribed to lkml; please cc me on responses]
You could try/test a patch that was just posted: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/27/249
--- ~Randy LPC 2009, Sept. 23-25, Portland, Oregon http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2009/
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