On 07/05/2011 01:18 AM, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote: > hello, > > Since a short while (I know it worked with 3.0-rc1) loopback-mounting an > image on a samba server mounted with cifs oopses the kernel. > > Szenario: > - Client system: Thinkpad T60, 32bit, Debian Unstable > - Server system: Lacie edmini NAS device, exporting 500GB disk with > samba, 450GB crypto image file on it > - mount -t cifs -o username=backups,uid=1000,gid=0,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,rw //192.168.10.98/backups /mnt/real-backups > - losetup /dev/loop7 /mnt/real-backups/loop.img > - cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop7 cifsloop > - mount -t ext4 -o rw,noatime,delalloc,barrier=0 /dev/mapper/cifsloop /mnt/backups > > This worked since ages, but since some time after 2.6.39 (last test > with 3.0-rc5+git ba466c74d99b91b2) this throws a kernel oops at the > "losetup" stage. I couldn't reproduce this with 3.0-rc6 with a smaller image file (1GB). But I see no relevant fixes between -rc5 and -rc6. Can you try to reproduce the same problem with a smaller non-encrypted file? Thanks, -- Suresh Jayaraman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
