Bug 216538

Summary:	Lack of /dev/dm-? breaks hal's encrypted/LUKS volume support
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	W. Michael Petullo <redhat>
Component:	udev	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
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Version:	6	CC:	davidz, error
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2006-11-20 23:21:27 UTC

Description of problem:
When I create a dm-crypt/LUKS device using cryptsetup a /dev/dm-? device node is
no longer created.  This node was using by hal to determine the relationship
between a dm-crypt device and its backing device.  As a result, dm-crypt/LUKS
devices are no longer mounted automatically by hal and friends.

I have been tracking Rawhide until Fedora Core 6.  I am not sure when my system
stoped creating /dev/dm-? device nodes.  I am also unsure what component was
responsible for this in the past.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hal-0.5.8.1-4.fc6

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a LUKS-encrypted removable disk
2. Plug the disk into a Fedora system
  
Actual results:
The hal and friends subsystem will detect a LUKS disk, prompt for a password and
setup a dm-crypt device.  However, volume.crypto_luks.clear.backing_volume is
not set for the reasons listed above.

Expected results:
volume.crypto_luks.clear.backing_volume should be set and the device should be
mounted.

Additional info:
I am using Fedora Core 6, with updates as of 18 Nov 06.

I found this bug when trying to work on my encrpyted root mkinitrd patch, bug
#124789.

See hald/linux/coldplug.c and hald/linux/blockdev.c for references to /dev/dm-?.

Comment 1 Michael Hampton 2006-11-21 00:26:19 UTC

This looks like a duplicate of bug 213801. :)

Comment 2 Michael Hampton 2006-11-21 01:07:30 UTC

*** Bug 213801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 W. Michael Petullo 2006-11-27 22:59:05 UTC

This should fix the problem:

Comment out "KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", OPTIONS+="ignore_device"" in
/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules.  Restart udevd.  udevd should now create
/dev/dm-? nodes.

I am not sure why udev has this rule.

Comment 4 David Zeuthen 2006-12-01 15:40:05 UTC

Reassigning.

Comment 6 W. Michael Petullo 2006-12-29 01:23:59 UTC

Harald, do you have any comment onthis udev rule?

Comment 7 Harald Hoyer 2006-12-29 11:23:20 UTC

will release udev update soon.

Comment 8 W. Michael Petullo 2007-01-11 23:03:48 UTC

Red Hat Magazine is scheduled to publish an article that talks about these
encryption features in hal.  The publication date is estimated to be 25 January
07.  Could you release a fix in udev before then?

Comment 9 Harald Hoyer 2007-01-12 14:44:29 UTC

already in the updates-testing repo

Comment 10 W. Michael Petullo 2007-01-12 23:29:30 UTC

I tried udev-095-17.fc6.ppc.rpm from the updates-testing repository. 
Unfortunately, I still find that /dev/dm-* devices are not created by udevd. 
The following line seems to remain the culprit:

KERNEL=="dm-[0-9]*", ACTION=="add", OPTIONS+="ignore_device"

It seems that "ACTION==add" was added to this line, but the problem from before
remains.

With this line commented out, udevd creates /dev/dm-* as I would expect.

Comment 11 Jens Lautenbacher 2007-01-17 02:16:46 UTC

Confirmed. Still needed to patch by hand here, too :-(

Comment 12 Harald Hoyer 2007-01-17 11:25:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209590 ***

Comment 13 Nils Philippsen 2007-07-24 09:26:06 UTC

Note that this is fixed in F7. I can use my encrypted LUKS volumes just fine there.