Bug 447302 – app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.4 with gentoo-sources-3.7.0 - Header files were moved and re-organized, causes a build failure.

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description G.Wolfe Woodbury 2012-12-14 23:35:37 UTC]

kernel 3.7.0 seems to have moved and re-organized some of the kernel include files
for example: include/asm-generic/types.h is not set up in lib/modules/3.7.0*/build/include/
other include headers are seen to be missing as well.
this may be necessary to kick upstream to oracle.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install gentoo-sources-3.7.0
2.build, reboot with new kernel, eselect the new kernel
3.emerge virtualbox-modules-4.2.4
Actual Results:  
emerge fails with missing header files late in build

Expected Results:  
should build and install

emerge info attached
ebuild log attached

[Comment 1 G.Wolfe Woodbury 2012-12-14 23:39:57 UTC]

Created attachment 332336 [details]
emerge --info output

ebuild log was lost

[Comment 2 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2012-12-14 23:45:07 UTC]

> ebuild log was lost

You can obtain it by emerging the package again. Can you try again?

[Comment 3 James 2012-12-15 20:31:52 UTC]

Created attachment 332400 [details]
Build Log for virtualbox-modules-4.1.22 (also broken by new kernel)

[Comment 4 James 2012-12-15 20:47:00 UTC]

I should add that I don't get any error on virtualbox-modules-4.2.4.

[Comment 5 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2012-12-23 18:15:04 UTC]

Is this still a problem with virtualbox-4.1.24 and/or virtualbox-4.2.6?

[Comment 6 Egor Y. Egorov 2012-12-24 02:13:06 UTC]

Yes

[Comment 7 Egor Y. Egorov 2012-12-24 02:21:34 UTC]

Created attachment 333178 [details]
build.log

[Comment 8 Egor Y. Egorov 2012-12-24 02:25:43 UTC]

This code in file vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c do not work:

#if    LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 7, 0)
                    vma->vm_flags |= VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
#else
                    vma->vm_flags |= VM_RESERVED;
#endif

Replacing VM_RESERVED to VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP allow build fine.

[Comment 9 Egor Y. Egorov 2012-12-24 02:40:44 UTC]

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtualbox.devel/5477

[Comment 10 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2013-02-23 19:45:55 UTC]

I couldn't reproduce this problem with kernel-3.7.9 and virtualbox-modules-4.2.6. Any chance this got fixed by the kernel developers meanwhile?

[Comment 11 Egor Y. Egorov 2013-02-24 04:54:02 UTC]

This problem only if the kernel source is pumped out of git. However, this problem is now fixed. Bug may be closed

[Comment 12 Egor Y. Egorov 2013-02-24 07:54:12 UTC]

This commit solve issue
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=da01ee3c8e7954fb7ed0ceb002d482c79f8b2ccd

[Comment 13 Thomas Capricelli 2013-03-12 13:29:11 UTC]

For those still having this problem: this is because you have a stalled include/linux/version.h in your kernel source tree. Probably because you use your own checkout.

Just remove it, and the problem is gone.
(and I think this bug could be closed now)

[Comment 14 Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) 2013-06-08 12:16:55 UTC]

For most arches, the 3.7 sources are no longer available due to security problems and I haven't experienced this with later versions; thus this bug should likely be closed, just let people that experience this again on much more recent versions file a new bug.

[Comment 15 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-06-08 12:19:15 UTC]

It seems to be fixed upstream, closing