[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#403426: kernel corrupts LUKS partition header on arm

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Clemens Fruhwirth <clemens at endorphin.org> [2007-01-03 20:32]:
> > I just applied the two patches from that thread and successfully ran
> > 'cryptsetup luksClose' on ARM.
> 
> "cryptsetup luksClose" is just an alias for "cryptsetup remove". This
> should never fail. What's with luksOpen after the patches?

Sorry, I meant to say that luksOpen worked with the patches.  I simply
copy&pasted the wrong line.

> > Would the lack of __flush_anon_page() on ARM explain the corruption
> > you've observed?
> Again, I'm not familiar with this.

Well, it seems to fix the problem and according to the thread on lkml
the lack of flush_anon_page() on ARM is associated with some
corruption.  At least FUSE doesn't work on ARM without those patches,
so it seems likely that luksOpen is also affected.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
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