linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 crypto issues with encrypted disks

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Date:	Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:15:53 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 crypto issues with encrypted disks

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:02:28PM +0000, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> Sorry for not catching this one earlier..  Sometime between 2.6.18-rc4-mm2
> and -mm3, something crept into the git-cryptodev.patch that breaks mounting
> encrypted disks.  What I have in /etc/fstab:

Thanks for the report!  I set the wrong default when I changed the
cryptoloop init code.  This patch should fix the problem.

Cheers,
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diff --git a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
index c6bbdbe..4053503 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cryptoloop.c
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ cryptoloop_init(struct loop_device *lo, 
 	}
 
 	if (!mode_len) {
-		mode = "ecb";
+		mode = "cbc";
 		mode_len = 3;
 	}
 
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