Bug#355156: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#355156: cryptsetup: luksOpen does not work with readonly media anymore

[Jonas Meurer]

On 12/03/2006 Clemens Fruhwirth wrote:
> Execuse me for being not highly "verbose" on this issue. I mailed
> Bastian in private a tarball with a fix. I haven't Cc'ed
> bugs.debian.org as I was not sure whether the bug tracking system
> handles attachments correctly. (Does it?)

yes, the but tracking system works perfectly well with attachments.

> However, we fixed the bug. The problem was that I restricted the length
> (number of sectors) of a temporary dm-crypt mapping. However for devices
> with non-512 sector size like DVDs, the length as well as the start must
> be aligned to (device_sector_size/512). I will wrap up an rc3 as soon as
> I have had time to take care of your error message proposals. 

great. would you like to send me the patch for this 'readonly' bug
anyway? i plan to upload a new package within the next days, as i fixed
some minor bugs and added support for openssl encrypted keyfiles. it
would be great to have a fix for this bug as well.

...
 jonas