Re: geli(8) breaks after a couple hours of uptime

From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen_at_fabiankeil.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:41:52 +0100
Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 09:50:58AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
 
> > I think that PAGE_SIZE (or at most a small multiple of it) should be
> > sufficient. I don't think that we currently have (or expect to see in
> > the near future) algorithms where keys with more than 4096 size
> > provide any additional security.
> 
> geli(8) deals just fine with files that are larger than buffers, so even
> with smaller buffer it can read the data in few steps.
> 
> The proposed patch is here if someone would like to give it a try:
> 
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/geom_eli.c.patch

Works for me, thanks a lot.

I tested with a couple of geli providers ranging from
v3 AES-CBC 128 bit to v7 AES-XTS 256 bit and didn't get
any crashes.

Fabian

Received on Mon Feb 11 2013 - 09:52:12 UTC

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