Re: Linux 4.14.36

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Le 24/04/18 à 14:50, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 02:40:18PM +0200, François Valenduc wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> Could that be the same reason?  Did 4.17-rc1 work for you?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
With 4.16.4 or 4.14.35, I can at least enter my password. The problem
occurs when mounting the root partition afterwards. With 4.17-rc2 and
rc1, it hangs before.

François Valenduc



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