Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2003 03:40:59 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: crypto-loop + highmen -> random crashes in -test11 |
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Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote: > > Hi. > > I get random crashes/corruption/ init kills when I use cryptoloop on > this highmem enabled ppc machine.
People have reported cryptoloop+highmem crashes on ia32 as well. I'm not sure if that was with -mm though.
> Applying the loop-* patches at > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out > > seem to fix this problem (at least I did not get any crash due to > cryptoloop in the last 2 days) > > Steps to reproduce: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/file bs=1M count=100 > losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /file > Password: > mkfs -t ext3 /dev/loop0 > mount /dev/loop0 /mnt > cd /mnt > dd if=/dev/zero of=bla > > gives you nice unpredictable crashes. >
Nice, but I don't know why those patches fixed it. hrm.
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