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Bug#815480: cryptsetup: versions before 1.7.1 incompatible with latest batch of Linux kernels (mainline and stable)



Hi Ben,

On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 03:45:17 +0000 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 Linux kernel crypto 'no key'Â patches break cryptsetup if not carefully backported
> 
> Linux 3.2.78 and 3.16.7-ckt25 have this problem, but I have fixed it
> (at least, the result works on my machine!) before uploading stable
> updates based on those versions.
> 
> If you use any other stable kernel branch, you'll need to either
> upgrade to 4.4 or request the appropriate stable maintainer fixes their
> backport of the 'no key' patches.

Probably this bugreport should be closed, no? To my understanding, the
Linux kernels in Debian are all patched to fix this problem and besides,
cryptsetup packages in Unstable and Stretch are fixed to work with the
backwards-incompatible changes anyway since quite some time.

Cheers,
 jonas


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