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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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