Bug 162544 - Updating cryptsetup-luks from 1.0-1 to 1.0.1-0 breaks previously created volumes
Summary: Updating cryptsetup-luks from 1.0-1 to 1.0.1-0 breaks previously created volumes
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cryptsetup-luks
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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Reported: 2005-07-06 03:54 UTC by Jason Tackaberry
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:54 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-07-06 15:58:21 UTC
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Description Jason Tackaberry 2005-07-06 03:54:36 UTC
Did a "yum update" and noticed a filesystem created with cryptsetup using a
stock FC4 system was no longer mounting.  Rolling back to 1.0-1 fixed the
problem.  The following shell session adequately illustrates the problem:

[root@viper ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=foobar bs=1M count=10
10+0 records in
10+0 records out
[root@viper ~]# rpm -q cryptsetup-luks
cryptsetup-luks-1.0-1
[root@viper ~]# losetup /dev/loop0 foobar
[root@viper ~]# echo blahblah | cryptsetup -c serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256
create cp0 /dev/loop0
[root@viper ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cp0
dd: writing to `/dev/mapper/cp0': No space left on device
20481+0 records in
20480+0 records out
[root@viper ~]# md5sum /dev/loop0
fc001241299983f3d59c1ec234c56f6c  /dev/loop0
[root@viper ~]# yum -y update cryptsetup-luks &>/dev/null
[root@viper ~]# rpm -q cryptsetup-luks
cryptsetup-luks-1.0.1-0.fc4
[root@viper ~]# dmsetup remove cp0
[root@viper ~]# echo blahblah | cryptsetup -c serpent-cbc-essiv:sha256 -s 256
create cp0 /dev/loop0
[root@viper ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/cp0
dd: writing to `/dev/mapper/cp0': No space left on device
20481+0 records in
20480+0 records out
[root@viper ~]# md5sum /dev/loop0
44afd074d4b9f1b0d73b01198901fe4a  /dev/loop0

Notice the md5sum of the loop-backed file is different between the two versions.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-06 15:41:50 UTC
From: 
  http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt
- Fixed hash inconsistancy bug between cryptsetup-luks and original for piped
passwords.

So, it's either be compatibile with earlier releases of cryptsetup (i.e., FC3),
or compatible with what was shipped in FC4. :/

Comment 2 Jason Tackaberry 2005-07-06 15:52:45 UTC
Interesting dilemma.  Seeing as the regression is actually in 1.0-1 and not
1.0.1-0, and backward compatibility with FC3 is probably more important, I
suppose I'd be inclined to mark this NOTABUG, with apologies to annoyed users
like myself who have to rebuild their volumes. :)



Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-06 15:58:21 UTC
Yeah, fixing the regression from FC3 was sort of the reason for the upgrade.
It's unfortunate that that wasn't noticed before FC4.


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