From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:03:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:03:06 -0400 Received: from hank-fep8-0.inet.fi ([194.251.242.203]:39354 "EHLO fep08.tmt.tele.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 17:02:56 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA907F6.3586811C@pp.inet.fi> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:02:46 +0300 From: Jari Ruusu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19aa2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "steve j. kondik" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: encrypted swap on loop in 2.4.10-pre12? In-Reply-To: <1000912739.17522.2.camel@discord> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "steve j. kondik" wrote: > i've been using encrypted swap over loopdev using the new cryptoapi > patches. i just built a 2.4.10-pre12 kernel and i got a panic doing > mkswap on the loopdev. the mkswap process becomes unkillable after this > and never finishes. this is repeatable everytime. i've had no problems > whatsoever until this kernel even under high load.. any ideas? :> Cryptoapi can't be used to encrypt swap. It has nasties like sleeping in make_request_fn() and potential memory allocation deadlock. loop-AES works with encrypted swap. Announcement is here: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/2001-09/msg00006.html http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-crypto&m=99953544804810&w=2 Regards, Jari Ruusu