Kernel panic on boot at dm_crypt

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Tomohiro Kusumi
<kusumi.tomohiro at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've changed SLIST to TAILQ at 3cd1dc08 a while ago, but it seems the
> location of insertion comes from NetBSD.

The insertion before the init is highly suspicious, since he got a
NULL de-reference panic.  However, I don't know why the I/O happens
simultaneously w/ the init.

>
> 2016-07-07 12:16 GMT+09:00 Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 5:54 AM, Stefan Unterweger
>>> <232.20711 at chiffre.aleturo.com> wrote:
>>>> Yet another problem on the same virtualised host as in the other thread
>>>> a few weeks back.
>>>>
>>>> As before, this is a presumably KVM virtualised host.  With the
>>>> exception of a small boot partition, all storage volumes are encrypted
>>>> via cryptsetup‘s LUKS mode.
>>>>
>>>> It looks like a race condition of some weird sort, and there’s no doubt
>>>> that the virtualisation is again playing tricks with me.  If I type in
>>>> the password incorrectly, then it will most likely crash violently right
>>>> there.  If typed in correctly, then in one of five it -might- boot.  The
>>>> kernel panic is attached below.
>>>
>>> It looks like a race between the dm init and the I/O path.  i.e. the
>>> read happens even before the dm init is completed.  Not sure about
>>> why...
>>
>> Try this patch:
>> https://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/dfly_dm_order.diff
>>
>> Thanks,
>> sephe
>>
>> --
>> Tomorrow Will Never Die



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