Re: Linux 4.14.36

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Le 24/04/18 à 14:31, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:52:19PM +0200, François Valenduc wrote:
>  > 
>> This version doens't boot on my computer. I am using gentoo with an
>> encrypted root partition using ext4. After that I have entered the
>> password, the root partition can not be mounted. I have bisected it to
>> the following commit:
>>
>> commit 26dbb30c58ffb85bc015bd5e58831483d50f7d18
>> Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Mar 29 22:10:31 2018 -0400
>>
>>     ext4: always initialize the crc32c checksum driver
>>
>>     commit a45403b51582a87872927a3e0fc0a389c26867f1 upstream.
>>
>>     The extended attribute code now uses the crc32c checksum for hashing
>>     purposes, so we should just always always initialize it.  We also want
>>     to prevent NULL pointer dereferences if one of the metadata checksum
>>     features is enabled after the file sytsem is originally mounted.
>>
>>     This issue has been assigned CVE-2018-1094.
>>
>>     https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199183
>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1560788
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
>>     Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Indeed, if I revert this commit, the problem doesn't occur. 4.16.4 also
>> fails to boot, probably for the same reason, since this commit is also
>> included.
>>
>> Does anybody know what is happening ?
> That's really odd.  Do we not have "enough" randomness at boot time?
> Does 4.17-rc2 also fail in this same way?
>
> Ted, any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
I can't know if 4.17-rc2 has the same problem, because it doesn't boot
for another reason. It hangs while loading the initrd image.

François Valenduc



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