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cannot use LUKS2 on RHEL7 if machine has less than 1GB RAM

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      Trying to use the role to manage LUKS2 on an EL7 managed node with less than 1GB RAM gives the following error:

      Failed to commit changes to disk: 'gi.repository.BlockDev' object has no attribute 'CryptoLUKSPBKDF'
      

      LUKS2 by default uses argon2 key derivation function which uses memory
      to prevent brute force attacks. By default it uses 1 GiB of RAM so on
      systems with less memory we configure it to use less and to do that we
      use the BDCryptoLUKSPBKDF struct which is not available. So it's only
      with LUKS2 (default is LUKS1 on RHEL7) and on systems with less than 1
      GiB RAM.

      RHEL7 has python2-blivet3-3.1.3-3.el7.noarch - this has /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blivet3/formats/luks.py which is where BlockDev.CryptoLUKSPBKDF is referenced.

      BlockDev.CryptoLUKSPBKDF is mapped to the function BDCryptoLUKSPBKDF defined in libblockdev 2.19 - but EL7 only has 2.18

      libblockdev-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-crypto-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-lvm-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-utils-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-mdraid-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-dm-2.18-5.el7.x86_64
      libblockdev-swap-2.18-5.el7.x86_64

      So, somehow, an update to EL7 python2-blivet3 was made to reference a symbol that is not defined

      There isn't really a workaround. Customers should either not use LUKS2 (use LUKS1 instead) on RHEL7, or ensure that the RHEL7 systems using LUKS2 have more than 1GB RAM in order to use argon2.

              rmeggins@redhat.com Richard Megginson
              rmeggins@redhat.com Richard Megginson
              Richard Megginson Richard Megginson
              David Jez David Jez
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