Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/75] 4.14.5-stable review

[Ivan Kozik]

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 07:56:40AM +0000, Ivan Kozik wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 03:34:24AM +0000, Ivan Kozik wrote:
>> >> I saw no problems on 8 of 9 machines, but the last one had a problem
>> >> because it used NVIDIA drivers (387); DKMS reported:
>> >>
>> >> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia-drm.ko uses GPL-only
>> >> symbol 'ex_handler_refcount'
>> >> //usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.0-11-common/scripts/Makefile.modpost:92:
>> >> recipe for target '__modpost' failed
>> >> make[3]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
>> >
>> > Is this a new issue?  Does 4.14.4 have this issue?
>>
>> I believe it is a new issue, because I have a 4.14.4 build and an
>> NVIDIA DKMS log for that 4.14.4 showing build success.
>>
>> > Odd, is 564c9cc84e2a ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text
>> > section for refcount exceptions") causing this?
>>
>> That was my guess too, but I did not verify.
>
> That feels really wrong here, I'd like to get some confirmation before I
> add this patch...

I built a 4.14.4 with all the stable-queue patches except:

locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT

and NVIDIA built fine with DKMS, so it looks like the refcount
enablement patch was responsible.

In summary, NVIDIA builds fine with

4.14.4
4.14.4 + all stable-queue except ...Enable CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT
4.14.4 + all stable-queue + https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/1110

Thanks,

Ivan