Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 188217
CFS directory doesn't cattach with correct password on x86_64
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:29 EST
Description of problem: CFS directories that are newly created, and ones that have previously worked on i386 systems, do not unlock using the cattach command even when given the correct password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4.1-7.fc5 and earlier How reproducible: Always on x86_64 systems Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make a new CFS directory: 'cmkdir test' 2. Use a guaranteed reproducible phrase - e.g. 'echo abcdefghijklmnopqrst' and use copy and paste in the terminal - to supply the same passphrase twice to the cmkdir command. 3. Try attaching to this CFS directory: 'cattach test' Actual results: 'cattach: incorrect passphrase' Expected results: No error from cattach and test directory shows up in secure mount directory (e.g. /mnt/crypt). Additional info: I've also tried this with directories I've copied from my previous Athlon 32-bit system; they won't cattach on the x86_64 system but, when the entire CFS directory is copied back to the i386 system, they are still accessible. In this way this is similar to bug 173037 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173037)
cfs was/is written in K&R C which does not support prototypes. On AMD64 which has sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *), this will cause every kind of problems. I added a patch to the -devel branch of Fedora Extras which should fix these issues. Can you test this version please? I do not have an AMD64 system where I can test it. [Because the patch is non-trivial, it is for -devel only ATM. So you have probably to rebuild the package for FC5]
Is this the 1.4.1-9.fc6 package in the FC5 extras development repository? I've tried that and it still has the same error. If not, could you give me a bit more information about what to download? I'm not as familiar with the Extras development branch as you are, sorry :-) Also, if there's a way to turn on debugging or something that allows me to give you more information about what's going on on my system, I'd be happy to oblige.
Created attachment 130467 [details] SELinux policy to mount the local NFS socket for CFS.
sorry, closing bug as wont-fix. CFS is discontinued.