Bug 115700 – lirc 0.7.2 will not load with newest kernel (unknown symbol verify_area)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Mike Bourgeous 2005-12-15 13:44:26 UTC]

Due to an obsolete function call in lirc_serial (and other modules), the kernel
modules will fail to load with an Unknown symbol error.  While this has
reportedly been fixed in the newest prerelease version of lirc, it would be nice
for us non-~arch folks to have a patch in portage to let us use 0.7.2 until
0.7.3 is finalized.

I have a patch and a new ebuild to fix this problem.  I will attach them.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install latest kernel (i.e. 2.6.14-gentoo-r4)
2. Install lirc-0.7.2
3. Try modprobe lirc_serial


Actual Results:  
modprobe fails with Unknown symbol verify_area

Expected Results:  
lirc_serial and lirc_dev should be loaded into the kernel

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r4 i686 AMD Athlon(tm)
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r6, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.4.1-r10, 1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19, 2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa amr apm atlas
audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bootsplash bzip2 cdda
cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr crypt cscope css cups curl dga dpms dts dv dvb dvd dvdr
dvdread dxr3 edl eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam fame fat fb fbcon fbdev
ffmpeg fftw flac flash foomaticdb fortran fuse gb gd gdbm gdk ggi ggz gif
gimpprint glibc-compat20 glut glx gphoto2 gpm gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml id3
ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 jack joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms libg++
libsamplerate libwww lirc live lm_sensors lzo mad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx
mmxext mng mod motif mozctl mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4
mplayer musepack mysql mythtv nas ncurses network nls nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg
oggvorbis on-the-fly-crypt opengl oss pam pdflib perl plotutils png python qt
qtmt quicktime radeon rar readline real reiserfs rtc samba sblive screen sdl
sensord shorten silverxp slang smooth sndfile soundtouch speex spell sse ssl
startup-notification stream subtitles svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tga theora tiff
transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb v4l v4l2 vcd vfat vlm
vorbis win32codecs xanim xfs xine xinerama xkb xml xml2 xmms xosd xv xvid xvmc
yv12 zlib zvbi userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Mike Bourgeous 2005-12-15 13:45:40 UTC]

Created attachment 74830 [details, diff]
Patch for lirc-0.7.2 to change verify_area to access_ok

This patch corrects the problem on my system.

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-15 13:47:09 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111820 ***

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 111820 ***

[Comment 3 Mike Bourgeous 2005-12-15 13:47:45 UTC]

Created attachment 74831 [details]
This ebuild patches the lirc source using the attached patch.

When I drop this ebuild and the previous patch into a portage overlay set with
PORTDIR_OVERLAY, lirc-0.7.2 compiles and installs correctly.

[Comment 4 Mike Bourgeous 2005-12-15 14:24:32 UTC]

My apologies for reopening this bug if it is truly inappropriate, but it appears
that this is a different bug from bug 111820.  This is just a patch to get us by
until 0.7.3 is out.  Bug 111820 talks about compile failures.  This bug talks
about insmod failures.

If this bug should be lumped in with bug 111820, then close it again and I will
comment on this issue on bug 111820.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-15 14:35:35 UTC]

Won't be fixed until 0.7.3, we track all issues in Bug 111820.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106683 ***