[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#875941: virtualbox-guest-dkms module build fails

clayton claytonk at gmx.com
Sat Sep 16 09:59:12 UTC 2017


Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
Version: 4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1
Severity: important

Loading new virtualbox-guest-4.3.36 DKMS files...
Building for 4.9.0-3-amd64
Building initial module for 4.9.0-3-amd64
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.9.0-3-amd64 (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/make.log for more information.

  CC [M]  /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.o
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c: In function â:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:581:21: error: implicit declaration of function â [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
                     page_cache_release(pMemLnx->apPages[iPage]);
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c: In function â:
/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:1032:29: warning: passing argument 1 of â makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
         rc = get_user_pages(pTask,                  /* Task for fault accounting. */
                             ^~~~~
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/the-linux-kernel.h:88:0,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/4.3.36/build/vboxguest/r0drv/linux/memobj-r0drv-linux.c:31:
/usr/src/linux-headers-4.9.0-3-common/include/linux/mm.h:1302:6: note: expected â but argument is of type â
 long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,

etc. etc.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_HK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_HK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_HK:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                    2.3-2
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils  4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1

virtualbox-guest-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-guest-dkms suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information


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