[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#403426: cryptsetup/linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx buglog divergence

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Paul TBBle Hampson <Paul.Hampson at Pobox.com> [2007-01-08 20:00]:
> cryptsetup bug, when given bad data upgrade-header code corrupts header
> 	This seems to be serious, and the point of #403426
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx bug, LUKS (and FUSE?) triggers page-cache
> 	corruption.
> linux-image-2.6.18-3-ixp4xx bug, LUKS (but not FUSE?) fails to mount
> 	under heavy load.
> 
> This would mean that cryptsetup is not unneccsarily RC, and the
> critical data-corruption bug in linux-image-...-ixp4xx _is_ both
> visible and appropriately RC.
> 
> Obviously it's submitter's and maintainer's calls, and I've already done
> one impossible^wstupid thing before breakfast today with the BTS control
> bot, so I'll just leave this here as a suggestion.

Well, I doubt it's worth at this stage to worry about which bug should
be RC or not.  I think it's pretty clear the cryptsetup maintainer
should upload a fixed package with the two patches from SVN which I
sent to #403426 already.  And the next upload of linux-2.6 will have
the fix for the 2nd item in your list.

This leaves the last problem (FUSE under load) which I think we can
leave for after etch.
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Martin Michlmayr
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