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

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Message-Id: <200609051217.k85CH5j7004648@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:17:05 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 crypto issues with encrypted disks

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:25:22 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:
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> On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 12:02:28 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu said:
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> > 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:
> 
> And of course, after I spend time doing a -mm bisect, the problem evaporates
> in -rc5-mm1. ;)

I'm an idiot, had a typo in grub.conf and booted an old working kernel.
It's still broken in -rc5-mm1.  Unfortunately, I'm going to be cleaning
manure off the impellers for the rest of the week, so I won't be able to
dig further into it before the weekend.

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