Re: 'kbuild' merge before 4.9-rc1 breaks build and boot

[Vince Weaver]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, Peter Wu wrote:

> I can confirm Olivers issue, the current mainline kernel fails to boot
> on kernels with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y. Bisection points to:
> 
>     commit 784d5699eddc55878627da20d3fe0c8542e2f1a2
>     Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Date:   Mon Jan 11 11:04:34 2016 -0500
> > WARNING: "memset" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] has no CRC!
> > WARNING: "__fentry__" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] has no CRC!
> > WARNING: "memcpy" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] has no CRC!
> > WARNING: "__sw_hweight32" [sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko] has no CRC!

Has any progress been made with this problem?

I'm also encountering it on my debian-unstable box on any kernel more 
recent than 4.9-rc1 (up to and including 4.9-rc4).  I am glad someone 
managed to isolate it as I was unable to get a clean bisect.

Vince