Bug 31620

Summary:	netfilter is broken with modversions enabled
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Shevek <gentoo>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) <aliz>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Shevek 2003-10-20 14:21:36 UTC

Will the appropriate maintainer please pass this upstream.

Following the kernel install directions exactly for a new system, I used vanilla-2.4.22 instead of gentoo-sources.

The automated kernel build system compiles with modversions by default.

There is a bug in netfilter with modversions. It compiles the symbol suffix for some symbols as _R__ver_nf_unregister_hook instead of _R_[8 chars hex].

This causes depmod -ae -f System.map to succeed, but the modules cannot be loaded into the running kernel.

Temporary fix: Compile without modversions.

Permanent fix: Get the upstream maintainer to make sure that macro/function expands properly to insert a module version, rather than its own name.

Comment 1 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-28 05:45:13 UTC

Please report this in netfilter bugzilla (http://bugzilla.netfilter.org).