Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 11:01:19 -0500 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: perox@freenet.de, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hans.petter.selasky@bitfrost.no> Subject: Re: RE: Entering password at GELI prompt using USB keyboard Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkqzi6w9RfNEkM9raTjUOD1_qbvw8BPRJs%2B=dVxGjME6w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <b2a4f8346e40a079264eaa7ec3c45138@email.freenet.de> References: <b2a4f8346e40a079264eaa7ec3c45138@email.freenet.de>
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[ Andriy, see quoted paragraph below ] On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:12 AM, <perox@freenet.de> wrote: > Hello again, > > finally I was able to "solve" my problem. The culprit was - as suspected - that > GELI uses cngets() instead of gets() since 9.1. I used the old gets() as well as > the related cngetc() and cncheckc() implementations from 9.0 and changed the > call in GELI from cngets() to gets_old(). As a result of this, I can now enter > the password at the GELI prompt again. Now, I am not sure what really causes my > problem as cngets() is not that different from gets() except for the new > cngrab() and cnungrab() calls as well as the the cpu_spinwait() in cngetc() that > wasn't present before. Perhaps cpu_spinwait() is buggy on my system? Or the > grab/ungrab things don't work correctly? > > If I see it correctly, Andriy Gapon is responsible for these last changes so I > suppose it would be best to contact him directly and work out a solution? Just add him on CC (done) and work out the solution on a public list: this way it helps more than just you and people could learn from how the debugging is done too. :-) -- Eitan Adler
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