Re: linux-next: Tree for July 28 ("copy_from_user_overflow"undefined)

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Jul 28 2011 - 19:01:47 EST


On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:05:31 +0200 Sedat Dilek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just see this build-break on the last mile:
>
> [...]
> OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin
> HOSTCC arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs
> HOSTCC arch/x86/boot/compressed/mkpiggy
> /mnt/sdb3/linux-kernel/linux-3.0/debian/build/source_i386_none/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c:
> In function 'print_absolute_symbols':
> /mnt/sdb3/linux-kernel/linux-3.0/debian/build/source_i386_none/arch/x86/boot/compressed/relocs.c:405:14:
> warning: variable 'sh_symtab' set but not used
> [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [fs/binfmt_misc.ko] undefined!
> make[5]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make[4]: *** [modules] Error 2
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> RELOCS arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.relocs
> GZIP arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux.bin.gz
> MKPIGGY arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.S
> AS arch/x86/boot/compressed/piggy.o
> LD arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux
> ZOFFSET arch/x86/boot/zoffset.h
> OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/vmlinux.bin
> AS arch/x86/boot/header.o
> LD arch/x86/boot/setup.elf
> OBJCOPY arch/x86/boot/setup.bin
> BUILD arch/x86/boot/bzImage
> Setup is 15596 bytes (padded to 15872 bytes).
> System is 2471 kB
> CRC eb598167
> Kernel: arch/x86/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
> make[3]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I have these binfmt kernel-config options set:
>
> CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
> # CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set
> CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m

How does someone turn off this error message?

I have:
# CONFIG_DEBUG_STRICT_USER_COPY_CHECKS is not set
# CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set

and I still cannot get this error to go away (on x86_64).


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~Randy
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