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Subject: bug#19190: Cannot boot with encrypted root
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:12:39 +0100
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To: Duncan Keall <duncan@duncankeall.com>
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Duncan Keall <duncan@duncankeall.com> skribis:

> Here are the configurations I have tested which all result in the errors
> posted above:
>
>   ("dm-crypt.ko" "aes-x86_64.ko" "crc32.ko" "pcbc.ko" "xcbc.ko" "sha256-s=
sse3.ko")
>   ("dm-crypt.ko" "cryptd.ko" "aes-x86_64.ko" "crc32.ko" "pcbc.ko" "xcbc.k=
o" "sha256-ssse3.ko")
>   ("dm-crypt.ko" "cryptd.ko" "crc32-pclmul.ko" "aes-x86_64.ko" "crc32.ko"=
 "pcbc.ko" "xcbc.ko" "sha256-ssse3.ko")
>
> I could also add "aesni-intel.ko" but it resulted in a different set of
> kernel errors on boot:
>
>   aesni_intel: Unknown symbol ablk_decrypt (err 0)
>   aesni_intel: Unknown symbol lrw_free_table (err 0)
>   aesni_intel: Unknown symbol ablk_set_key (err 0)
>   ...
>   ERROR: In procedure load-linux-module: Unknown error -1

Presumably that=E2=80=99s because one of its prerequisites hasn=E2=80=99t b=
een loaded
yet.

The difficulty is that modules need to be listed in topological order:
things that aesni_intel.ko depends on must appear before aesni_intel.ko.

On my machine, I see:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ lsmod|grep aes
aesni_intel           165373  3=20
ablk_helper            13597  1 aesni_intel
cryptd                 20359  4 ghash_clmulni_intel,aesni_intel,ablk_helper
lrw                    13286  1 aesni_intel
glue_helper            13990  1 aesni_intel
aes_x86_64             17131  1 aesni_intel
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So the right order for these would be:

  cryptd
  aes_x86_64
  ablk_helper
  lrw
  aesni_intel

We=E2=80=99ll have to change the initrd build to figure that out automatica=
lly,
but in the meantime, we have to sort them by hand.

Ludo=E2=80=99.