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  1. Bug #1849348
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1849348

Cheyenne Wills (ccwills) wrote : Re: linux 5.4-rc4 Unable to build simple kernel module

I think I might have found the
"source" of the problem.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/40576e5e63ea5eeab814de7af83ad09dd64134ee

Replacing the gcc-7 version with gcc-8 seems to "fix" the problem

root@ubuntu_base:~/builderr# uname -a
Linux ubuntu_base 5.4.0-050400rc5-generic #201910271430 SMP Sun Oct 27 18:33:09 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu_base:~/builderr# gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1~18.04.1) 8.3.0
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

root@ubuntu_base:~/builderr# make -C /lib/modules/5.4.0-050400rc5-generic/build/ M=$PWD
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-050400rc5-generic'
  AR /root/builderr/built-in.a
  CC [M] /root/builderr/conftest.o
  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST 1 modules
  CC [M] /root/builderr/conftest.mod.o
  LD [M] /root/builderr/conftest.ko
make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.4.0-050400rc5-generic'