nvidia dkms modules fail to build with linux 4.4.0-143.169 [error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’]

[Kleber Sacilotto de Souza]

[Impact]
nvidia dkms modules (304, 340, 384) fail to build after Ubuntu kernel 4.4 backported the following fix from upstream stable, which is included on xenial kernel 4.4.0-143.169 that's currently in -proposed.

mm: replace get_user_pages() write/force parameters with gup_flags
https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/xenial/commit/?h=master-next&id=9c72ad08f1510332e9314046e6a2adba5064f39a

Excerpt from ./nvidia-304/304.135/build/make.log:
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/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-304/304.135/build/nv-linux.h:1941:9: error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’
         get_user_pages(current, current->mm, start, nr_pages, write, force, pages, vmas)
         ^
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-304/304.135/build/nv-mlock.c:52:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘NV_GET_USER_PAGES’
     ret = NV_GET_USER_PAGES((unsigned long)address,
           ^
In file included from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-304/304.135/build/nv-linux.h:82:0,
                 from /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-304/304.135/build/nv-mlock.c:15:
include/linux/mm.h:1222:6: note: declared here
 long get_user_pages(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm,
      ^
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[Test case]
Install nvidia dkms packages (nvidia-graphics-drivers-304, nvidia-graphics-drivers-340, nvidia-graphics-drivers-384) with Ubuntu linux 4.4 later or equal than 4.4.0-143.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1573508, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.