[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#815480: cryptsetup: versions before 1.7.1 incompatible with latest batch of Linux kernels (mainline and stable)

[Milan Broz]

On 02/21/2016 09:40 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Source: cryptsetup
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream fixed-upstream
> 
> This bug is actually severity grave as it renders systems unbootable and
> data unaccessible, but since it can only trigger on non-Debian kernels ATM,
> I am reporting it at severity important.
> 
> https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/issues/284
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112631
> 
> cryptsetup is rendered useless by the latest batch of upstream stable
> kernels, as well as by Linux mainline.

Only some of stable kernels are problematic because of incomplete backported
patch series.

See http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org/msg17926.html
(I tried to backport missing part there.)

There is no problem in mainline kernel and 4.4.2 and 4.3.6 stable works.

...

> Regardless, it would be nice to have updated cryptsetup uploaded to unstable
> ASAP, and an eventual Debian stable backport...

Debian kernel should be fixed in the first place.

Milan