Re: Linux 4.14.36

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:40:18PM +0200, Fran�ois Valenduc wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 24/04/18 � 14:31, Greg KH a �crit�:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:52:19PM +0200, Fran�ois Valenduc wrote:
> >  > 
> >> This version doens't boot on my computer. I am using gentoo with an
> >> encrypted root partition using ext4. After that I have entered the
> >> password, the root partition can not be mounted. I have bisected it to
> >> the following commit:
> >>
> >> commit 26dbb30c58ffb85bc015bd5e58831483d50f7d18
> >> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> >> Date:   Thu Mar 29 22:10:31 2018 -0400
> >>
> >>     ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver
> >>
> >>     commit a45403b51582a87872927a3e0fc0a389c26867f1 upstream.
> >>
> >>     The extended attribute code now uses the crc32c checksum for hashing
> >>     purposes, so we should just always always initialize it.  We also want
> >>     to prevent NULL pointer dereferences if one of the metadata checksum
> >>     features is enabled after the file sytsem is originally mounted.
> >>
> >>     This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1094.
> >>
> >>     https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199183
> >>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560788
> >>
> >>     Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
> >>     Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> >>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >>
> >> Indeed, if I revert this commit, the problem doesn't occur. 4.16.4 also
> >> fails to boot, probably for the same reason, since this commit is also
> >> included.
> >>
> >> Does anybody know what is happening ?
> > That's really odd.  Do we not have "enough" randomness at boot time?
> > Does 4.17-rc2 also fail in this same way?
> >
> > Ted, any ideas?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> I can't know if 4.17-rc2 has the same problem, because it doesn't boot
> for another reason. It hangs while loading the initrd image.

Could that be the same reason?  Did 4.17-rc1 work for you?

thanks,

greg k-h