Bug#736274: Data corruption on dm-crypt volumes over USB 3 (xhci-hcd)

[skodde <skodde@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> So far as I am aware, the write failure is properly reported (except
> that the operation is retried and the failure logged many times, which
> is also a known bug) and previously written data are readable.  If
> that is the case, I don't believe this qualifies as data corruption.

I'm not sure if every write operation triggers a corruption, but, as
an example, if you try to run a fsck (forcing it if necessary) on an
existing ext4 filesystem on the encrypted volume, the filesystem will
be heavily corrupted.