insmod failing to insert a simple module

Madhu K madhu.sk89 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 06:43:58 EDT 2016


How to check correct headers, and when I download or clone the latest
kernel don't they provide the headers along with kernel ?

Thanks,
Madhu

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Pasquier, Thomas <tfjmp at g.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> Did you verify that you are building your module against the correct
> headers?
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Madhu K <madhu.sk89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> While inserting a kernel module, insmod is failing with following error.
>>
>> insmod: error inserting 'page_walk.ko': Invalid module format.
>>
>> I verified the modinfo of "page_walk.ko" it is showing version magic as : 4.0.5_rc7+ SMP mod_unload modversions 686
>>
>> what does "mod_unload" mean here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Madhu
>>
>>
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