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Module load (insmod): Unknown symbol

Hello,

I am trying to load a third party proprietary driver (successfully compiled) but when I try to load it with insmod, I get the "Unknown symbol" error:

Code:

loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.

Unknown symbol __check_object_size (err 0)

Unknown symbol __stack_chk_guard (err 0)

Unknown symbol kmem_cache_alloc_trace (err 0)

Unknown symbol __stack_chk_fail (err 0)

Unknown symbol _mcount (err 0)

I know this error is related to some missing module, but I don't know how to ensure what module is missing (without looking at modules.symbols into the /lib/module/<kernel-version>/ dir).

Additionally, depmode <driver.ko> returns the error:

Code:

depmod: ERROR: Bad version passed

uname output is:

Code:

Linux hostname 4.9-camera-lt-qcom #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 30 16:14:43 UTC 2017 aarch64 GNU/Linux

What exactly is causing this error and what is the best way to solve it ?
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
s

when you're messing with an out of tree kernel module, stuff gets messy. you can only try different versions of the kernel. i just grepped the source for the first symbol in kernel 4.15, and got- include/linux/thread_info.h:extern void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n,
include/linux/thread_info.h: __check_object_size(ptr, n, to_user);
mm/usercopy.c:void __check_object_size(const void *ptr, unsigned long n, bool to_user)
mm/usercopy.c:EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_object_size);
do you think your version doesn't have those symbols?

Hey whansard,

Quote:

I just grepped the source ...

That's what I have done as well but as I understand, these symbols are not related to any driver (I mean that these symbols are not declared in a driver source code from drivers directory).

So from the error I understood that the driver was looking for some other missing part/driver/feature of the kernel, obviously not compiled at that time.
I finally solved (at least it was it seems) using the correct configuration file provided from Linaro (I found it later), without messing with these kind of trouble.

Regards,
Simon