Re: [dm-crypt] Offset/size issue during LUKS recovery.

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 02:52:35 CEST, Julio Cesar Faracco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Since I moved to the version 1.6.7 of cryptsetup, I started to have some problems to recovery a LUKS partition
> using a LUKS header file and a valid passphrase.
> 
> # cryptsetup luksDump my_header_file --debug
> # Detected kernel Linux 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64.
> # Reading LUKS header of size 1024 from device /tmp/my_header_file
> # Key length 64, device size 8192 sectors, header size 4036 sectors.
[...]
> # # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 my_enc_partition <<EOF
> $(PASSWORD)
> EOF
> # Detected kernel Linux 3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64 x86_64.
> # Reading LUKS header of size 1024 from device /tmp/my_header_file
> # Key length 64, device size 4060 sectors, header size 4036 sectors.

I take it, the device is  8192 sectors, i.e. 4MB? 

If so, there seem to be a bug in device-size detection
as used by luksOpen.

Regards,
Arno

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