Re: encrypted swap on loop in 2.4.10-pre12?

From: steve j. kondik (shade@chemlab.org)
Date: Fri Sep 21 2001 - 09:52:17 EST

i am successfully running 2.4.10-pre13 with kpreempt, grsec, and ext3
with encrypted swap now.

On Fri, 2001-09-21 at 05:15, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> "steve j. kondik" wrote:
> > agreed. i've had this problem on two seperate systems, however i _am_
> > running a few other patches- notably the kpreempt patch. but again, no
> > problems at all until 2.4.10-pre12. i'll try some things in the morning
> > and see what i can come up with. i see you are doing swapon, however
> > have you tried mkswap over your loopdev? i can actually swapon just
> > fine, its mkswap that causes the panic.
>
> I losetup the encrypted swap loop with a random key every time the box
> boots, so mkswap is done before swapon. I used the example script in the
> loop-AES README file.
>
> For testing purposes, can you back out the kpreempt patch, and let me know
> if that cures the problem.
>
> Regards,
> Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
>
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