| Date | Sat, 9 Dec 2017 08:45:44 +0100 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.14 00/75] 4.14.5-stable review |
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On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 03:34:24AM +0000, Ivan Kozik wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:07 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.14.5 release. > > There are 75 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response > > to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please > > let me know. > > > > Responses should be made by Sat Dec 9 13:07:57 UTC 2017. > > Anything received after that time might be too late. > > 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?
> The drivers built fine after rebuilding Linux with [PATCH] > locking/refcounts: Do not force refcount_t usage as GPL-only export > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/4/1110 > > which appears to be in Linus' tree as b562c171cf011d297059bd0265742eb5fab0ad2f
Odd, is 564c9cc84e2a ("locking/refcounts, x86/asm: Use unique .text section for refcount exceptions") causing this?
thanks,
greg k-h
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