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

[Ben Hutchings]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux
Control: affects -1 cryptsetup

On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 17:40:27 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org> 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.

As already explained, this is a kernel bug and must be fixed there.

Thankfully, no Debian kernel versions have this bug - yet.  I'm
currently working to fix the broken backports for 3.2.y and 3.16.y so
that this bug is not introduced in the next uploads to wheezy-pu and
jessie-py.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson
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