linux-kernel - Re: cryptsetup not working under 3.6

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:31:17 +0000
From:	Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko@...ulin.net>
To:	Milan Broz <gmazyland@...il.com>
CC:	dm-crypt@...ut.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cryptsetup not working under 3.6 - regression from 3.4?

Hi,

On 21/10/12 21:03, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> On 21/10/12 20:29, Milan Broz wrote:
>> On 10/21/2012 02:36 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
>>> On 21/10/12 13:20, Zdenek Kaspar wrote:
>>>>>> I would say you are still missing some modules.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kernel says this:
>>>>>>>      device-mapper: table: 252:1: crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm
>>>>>>>      device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It complains about aes-cbc-essiv:sha256.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It can be missing CBC od SHA256, but according the message I bet
>>>>>> you have no "cbc" block cipher mode module compiled.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you grep your final .config for CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC and
>>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256 a paste it here?
>>>>>
>>>>> I both working 3.4 and non-working 3.6 situation is the same:
>>>>>
>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_CBC=y
>>>>> CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA256=m
>>>>
>>>> Compare please:
>>>> grep CONFIG_CRYPTO /boot/config-3.4
>>>> grep CONFIG_CRYPTO /boot/config-3.6
>>>>
>>>> One of the problem could be that your configuration misses something
>>>> like: CONFIG_CRYPTO_BLKCIPHER, CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER, etc.. or some of
>>>> those could changed into modules and are not getting loaded..
>>>
>>> Here it is:
>>
>> Hm, so it should work without problem. Can you paste full output of
>> failing
>> cryptsetup command (with added --debug switch) and your full kernel
>> .config?
>
> Attached.
>
>> Cryptsetup itself has regression tests which test almost all common
>> combinations of ciphers so the problem is almost surely in some kernel
>> part misconfiguration.
>> Any other related messages in syslog beside two lines you posted?
>
> No just those two.

Just tried 3.6.4 and it is still broken. Is there anything else I could 
try to debug this?

Thanks,

Tvrtko

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