kernel build error

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon Mar 18 00:21:52 EDT 2013


On 3/17/13, Kumar amit mehta <gmate.amit at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm facing a kernel build issue with the latest kernel on my machine. It
> seem
> like a configuration issue, and I haven't been able to resolve it for
> sometime,
> hence need your help. The error message is as below:
>
> <error snip>
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [fs/binfmt_misc.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [drivers/staging/cxt1e1/cxt1e1.ko]
> undefined!
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [drivers/isdn/icn/icn.ko] undefined!
> ERROR: "copy_from_user_overflow" [drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/b1.ko]
> undefined!
> <error snip>

Looks like a .h (header) file is missing on those files (icn, pktgen
etc). A header that defines copy_from_user_overflow() for sure.

Maybe grep can help.

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Mulyadi Santosa
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