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[Colin King <1243636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tyler, reduced it down to a one line fix. Tested with a 0.5GB, 2GB, 4GB,
8GB, 32GB test file with a sanity check on each byte. Patch attached
below.  Not yet tested with ecryptfs tests, but it looks like the root
issue.

** Patch added: "potential fix"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1243636/+attachment/3889786/+files/0001-eCryptfs-fix-32-bit-corruption-issue-LP-1243636.patch

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Title:
  ecryptfs currupts files over 4GB size on i686

Status in eCryptfs:
  In Progress
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  on extracting files with extracted size >4 GB files are getting currupted.
  interestingly file gets currupted in the very moment the file size gets more than 4GB.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: linux-image-3.11.0-12-generic 3.11.0-12.19
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic i686
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Oct 23 12:11:43 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-20 (94 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-12-generic root=UUID=e97431f7-60b7-4fbe-b22f-5ca3304f2d50 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: linux
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-09-08 (45 days ago)

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