[CryptoAPI-devel] more strangeness

[David B. <db...@du...>]

Ok so.. i did some more testing, and came up with a couple strange
things.  Jari's loop patch also crashes, which further points to the bug
having to do with xfs specifically.  One strange thing i did notice, was
that 2 out of the 3 times i crashed it, it crashed while running the
bdflush thread, and one time during the kupdated thread.  But the iv
patch always(6 out of 6 times) hangs in kupdated thread.
  The other *very* strange thing is that if you recompile the loop
driver and modprobe it(without rebooting after make modules, and make
modules_install) it works fine!  This is *really* strange, i don't think
i quite know enough about the kernel to figure out why this would
happen, but something fishy is going on.  Maybe someone can give me some
advice here, my only thoughts this far are to read the kernel code for
kupdated and bdflush, try to understand whats going on.  Then setup a
more advanced debugger like kdb, or kgdb.
Dave