Source: cryptsetup Severity: important Tags: upstream fixed-upstream This bug is actually severity grave as it renders systems unbootable and data unaccessible, but since it can only trigger on non-Debian kernels ATM, I am reporting it at severity important.
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/issues/284 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112631 cryptsetup is rendered useless by the latest batch of upstream stable kernels, as well as by Linux mainline. On systems with encrypted root, this renders the system unbootable. Otherwise, it renders any encrypted partitions and media unaccessible. Reproduced in Debian stable with a custom 3.18.27 kernel. The issue has been fixed upstream in the cryptsetup master branch, and in the cryptsetup v1_7_x branch. The fix will land in the 1.7.1 release, I think. The kernel people did not reply yet due to the weekend, but I expect the change will be made optional or reverted... for a while (and I hope for the "optional"). Regardless, it would be nice to have updated cryptsetup uploaded to unstable ASAP, and an eventual Debian stable backport... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
