Persisting insmod problems (Re: [BusyBox] busybox insmod problem)

[Ritesh Banerjee]

Hi
  I am using Linux kernel 2.4.20 with uclibc-0.9.26
and busybox 1.00-pre8 on a MIPS big-endian platform.
The problem I am facing is that doing an insmod /
modprobe for a few modules causes a "seg fault"!. One
example is the Prosum ATM25 card driver nicstar.o.
Doing a modprobe nicstar.o causes a segfault.
  If i strip the symbols in the object (so that the
size greatly reduces) by doing a 'strip
--strip-unneeded nicstar.o', then modprobe works fine.
Any ideas ?

Regards
Ritesh
--- Manuel Novoa III <mjn3 at codepoet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:58:38AM -0400, Charlie
> Brady wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Eric Spakman wrote:
> > 
> > > > > It seems that busybox insmod (busybox pre5,
> latest from CVS but also 
> > > > > previous versions) has problems loading the
> crypto modules from 
> > > > > kernel-2.4.24. It also has problems with the
> airo module (which uses 
> > > > > crypto)
> > > > > 
> > > > > # insmod aes
> > > > > Using /lib/modules/aes.o
> > > > > insmod: unresolved symbol
> crypto_unregister_alg
> > > > > insmod: unresolved symbol
> crypto_register_alg
> > > > > 
> > > > This means that the crypto core module is not
> loaded.
> > > > 
> > > The crypto core is loaded and the /proc/crypto
> interface is also 
> > > available. Using insmod from modutils-2.4.21
> does work, so it must be 
> > > something with busybox insmod.
> 
> I'm not seeing this problem.  I just tried and
> busybox insmod
> successfully loaded aes.o.
> 
> > I'm also finding insmod to be unreliable (all
> versions 1.00-pre5 through 
> > 1.00-pre10). Thanks to your hint I've fallen back
> to using insmod from 
> > modutils, which is working perfectly.
> > 
> > I'm happy to help debug if anyone has any
> suggestions. Target is mipsel, 
> > compiled against uClibc 0.9.19.
> 
> Also not seeing any problems with mipsel using
> current busybox and
> uClibc under openwrt.  Very possibly a mipsel uClibc
> 0.9.19 issue.
> 
> Manuel
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