Bug 438518

Summary:	app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1 fails with kernel 3.7-rc
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabio Rossi <rossi.f>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) <polynomial-c>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	patrick, swapon, waterhouse.sysmail
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	virtualbox-modules-kernel-3.7-vmreserved.patch

Description Fabio Rossi 2012-10-15 21:49:53 UTC

Here is the problem:

make KBUILD_VERBOSE= SUBDIRS=/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv SRCROOT=/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv CONFIG_MODULE_SIG= -C /usr/src/linux modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/wireless-testing'
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/linux/SUPDrv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/SUPDrv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/SUPDrvSem.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/SUPDrvTracer.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/alloc-r0drv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/initterm-r0drv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/memobj-r0drv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/mpnotification-r0drv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/powernotification-r0drv.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/assert-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/alloc-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/initterm-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memuserkernel-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/mpnotification-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/process-r0drv-linux.o
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/semevent-r0drv-linux.o
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c: In function ‘rtR0MemObjNativeMapUser’:
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1460:38: error: ‘VM_RESERVED’ undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1460:38: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
  CC [M]  /var/tmp/portage/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.2.0-r1/work/vboxdrv/r0drv/linux/semeventmulti-r0drv-linux.o

The problem is related to the recent kernel commit http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=314e51b9851b4f4e8ab302243ff5a6fc6147f379

Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-16 04:59:12 UTC

Please report this issue upstream and let us know about the upstram bug report once it was filed.

Comment 2 Fabio Rossi 2012-10-19 12:34:39 UTC

Created attachment 326932 [details, diff]
virtualbox-modules-kernel-3.7-vmreserved.patch

I have created a simple patch to solve the problem, tested and working.

Comment 3 Magnus Helmersson 2012-10-20 16:33:58 UTC

I suspect this is a duplicate of: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=432884

Comment 4 Magnus Helmersson 2012-10-20 16:45:33 UTC

Oh, and there already seems to be a fix for it: https://www.virtualbox.org/changeset/43637/vbox