virtualbox 6.1.16-dfsg-3 ADT test failure with linux-5.10 5.10.0-3.4

[Paolo Pisati]

Testing failed on:
    amd64: https://objectstorage.prodstack4-5.canonical.com/v1/AUTH_77e2ada1e7a84929a74ba3b87153c0ac/autopkgtest-hirsute-canonical-kernel-team-bootstrap/hirsute/amd64/v/virtualbox/20201110_150102_73abe@/log.gz

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Cristiano Rodrigues (microcris)]

It is happening because alloc_vm_area was removed from the kernel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/30/1124

The bug has a ticket assigned to it already:
https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055

but there isn't any changes so far.

[Cristiano Rodrigues (microcris)]

the ticket https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055 was updated and there is a patch that fixes the problem. Here it is:
https://www.virtualbox.org/raw-attachment/ticket/20055/linux-5.10-r0drv-memobj-fix-r0.patch

It is working with kernel version 5.10.0-1006-oem

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package virtualbox - 6.1.16-dfsg-6

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virtualbox (6.1.16-dfsg-6) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/linux-5.10-r0drv-memobj-fix-r0.patch:
    - upstream-proposed patch to fix a build failure with linux 5.10
      (LP: #1903741)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Dec 2020 23:58:18 +0100