Ubuntu 22.04 - dkms script from r8168-dkms debian package crashes at installation / reinstallation with kernel 6.5.0-14-generic

[Leonid Heidt]

This is a bug report concerning

 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r8168

for the binary debian package called r8168-dkms on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy).

After the recent upgrade from kernel

 6.2.0-39-generic

to

 6.5.0-14-generic

the rebuilding of the dkms driver rtl8168 from this package breakes with the attached log of dkms script.

~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure r8168-dkms

...

Building initial module for 6.5.0-14-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/r8168-dkms.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 6.5.0-14-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/make.log for more information.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Reinhard Katzmann (suamor)]

This issue is still present in the latest 6.5.0-21-generic kernel.

/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl8168_set_mac_address’:
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24197:19: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘__builtin_memcpy’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qua
lifiers]
24197 | memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
      | ~~~^~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:648:27: note: in definition of macro ‘__fortify_memcpy_chk’
  648 | __underlying_##op(p, q, __fortify_size); \
      | ^
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24197:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
24197 | memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
      | ^~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24197:19: note: expected ‘void *’ but argument is of type ‘const unsigned char *’
24197 | memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
      | ~~~^~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/fortify-string.h:648:27: note: in definition of macro ‘__fortify_memcpy_chk’
  648 | __underlying_##op(p, q, __fortify_size); \
      | ^
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24197:9: note: in expansion of macro ‘memcpy’
24197 | memcpy(dev->dev_addr, addr->sa_data, dev->addr_len);
      | ^~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24199:32: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘rtl8168_rar_set’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
24199 | rtl8168_rar_set(tp, dev->dev_addr);
      | ~~~^~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:575:59: note: expected ‘uint8_t *’ {aka ‘unsigned char *’} but argument is of type ‘const unsigned char *’
  575 | void rtl8168_rar_set(struct rtl8168_private *tp, uint8_t *addr);
      | ~~~~~~~~~^~~~
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c: In function ‘r8168_csum_workaround’:
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:27733:24: error: implicit declaration of function ‘skb_gso_segment’; did you mean ‘skb_gso_reset’? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
27733 | segs = skb_gso_segment(skb, features);
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      | skb_gso_reset
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:27733:22: warning: assignment to ‘struct sk_buff *’ from ‘int’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
27733 | segs = skb_gso_segment(skb, features);
      | ^
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c: In function ‘rtl8168_resume’:
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:28693:32: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘rtl8168_rar_set’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
28693 | rtl8168_rar_set(tp, dev->dev_addr);
      | ~~~^~~~~~~~~~
/var/lib/dkms/r8168/8.049.02/build/r8168_n.c:24214:26: note: expected ‘uint8_t *’ {aka ‘unsigned char *’} but argu...