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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: race condition in dm-crypt?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:11:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326161146.GA3535@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070323174214.GA14179@tatooine.rebelbase.local>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 06:42:14PM +0100, markus reichelt wrote:
> * "Jan C. Nordholz" <jckn@gmx.net> wrote:
> > I'm seeing this for quite a while now (since 2.6.16 at least), but
> > without any obvious indicator to what might be causing it... where
> > should I continue debugging this?
> I bet folks at dm-crypt@saout.de would love to hear about this.
 
As mentioned in another thread, please try these patches if they aren't already
in your kernel:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/2.6.19/dm-io-fix-bi_max_vecs.patch                                                                                       

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-merge-max_hw_sector.patch            

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-crypt-disable-barriers.patch

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-crypt-fix-call-to-clone_init.patch
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-crypt-fix-avoid-cloned-bio-ref-after-free.patch
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-crypt-fix-remove-first_clone.patch
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-crypt-use-smaller-bvecs-in-clones.patch

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-26 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23 17:05 race condition in dm-crypt? Jan C. Nordholz
2007-03-23 17:42 ` markus reichelt
2007-03-26 16:11   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2007-03-23 20:41 ` Christoph Maier
2007-03-24 20:27   ` Kasper Sandberg

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