Bug 481354 – app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod on hardened - .../work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c:3188:7: error: assignment of member ‘family’ in read-only object

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Frederik Schaller 2013-08-16 19:28:29 UTC]

emerge open-vm-tools-kmod failed with the following error messages:

 * Preparing vsock module
make HOSTCC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- 'LDFLAGS=-m elf_x86_64' auto-build HEADER_DIR=/usr/src/linux/include BUILD_DIR=/lib/modules/3.9.9-hardened/build OVT_SOURCE_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359 
Using 2.6.x kernel build system.
make -C /lib/modules/3.9.9-hardened/build SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
  MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.9.9-hardened'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.o
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c: In function ‘VSockVmciRegisterAddressFamily’:
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c:3188:7: error: assignment of member ‘family’ in read-only object
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c:3191:10: error: assignment of member ‘family’ in read-only object
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c: In function ‘VSockVmciUnregisterAddressFamily’:
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.c:3233:4: error: assignment of member ‘family’ in read-only object
make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock/linux/af_vsock.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359/work/open-vm-tools-2013.04.16-1098359/modules/linux/vsock] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.9.9-hardened'
make: *** [vsock.ko] Error 2

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I tried to compile open-vm-tools-kmod with different kernels and different gcc specs.

emerge --info '=app-emulation/open-vm-tools-kmod-2013.04.16.1098359':

Portage 2.1.11.55 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.9.9-hardened x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.9.9-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5-2430L_0_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     1015836 total,    244144 free
KiB Swap:    2097148 total,   2097148 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:30:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl amd64 berkdb bindist bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri gdbm hardened iconv ipv6 justify mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre readline session sse sse2 ssl symlink tcpd unicode urandom zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2013-08-17 15:17:02 UTC]

Please attach the entire build log to this bug report.

[Comment 2 Frederik Schaller 2013-08-18 17:39:48 UTC]

Created attachment 356388 [details]
Build log for Kernel 3.9.9

[Comment 3 Frederik Schaller 2013-08-22 14:46:40 UTC]

I compiled a kernel without grsecurity and I could build open-vm-tools-kmod.

[Comment 4 Tomáš Mózes 2013-10-18 19:18:41 UTC]

vsock is already included in kernel 3.9:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/tree/net/vmw_vsock/Kconfig?id=refs/tags/v3.9

[Comment 5 Mike Gilbert 2014-08-10 16:27:47 UTC]

We no longer build the vsock module for kernels 3.9 or better.