VMware – 12.5.2 Released – Still Broken With Kernel 4.9..

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Just updated the test system to VMware Workstation Pro 12.5.2, and it still fails to compile with Kernel 4.9-rc5

I have – so far – been unable to find any other patches for this issue, but fortunately the nasty hack I documented in the article for 4.9-rc4 still works.. http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1838

The release notes for 12.5.2 are here: http://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/workstation/12pro/workstation-1252-release-notes.html

Robert Gadsdon. November 14, 2016.

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VMware – 12.5.2 Released – Still Broken With Kernel 4.9.. — 33 Comments

kirusyaga on November 27, 2016 at 18:17 said:

What about 4.8.10? Works without patching?

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- RG on November 30, 2016 at 22:56 said:
  
  4.8.X kernels are OK (running 12.5.2 on 4.8.11, now)
  RG.
  
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Bharath M on December 30, 2016 at 05:17 said:

Steps:
tar -xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar
gedit vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c

In vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c, around line 1162, change

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
#else
retval = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, (unsigned long)uvAddr,
numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
#endif

to

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0)
retval = get_user_pages((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, ppages, NULL);
#else
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
#else
retval = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, (unsigned long)uvAddr,
numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
#endif
#endif

sudo tar -cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar vmmon-only/
tar -xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar
gedit vmnet-only/userif.c

In vmnet-only/userif.c, around line 113, change

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages(addr, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#else
retval = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr,
1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#endif

to

#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 9, 0)
retval = get_user_pages(addr, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#else
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4, 6, 0)
retval = get_user_pages(addr, 1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#else
retval = get_user_pages(current, current->mm, addr,
1, 1, 0, &page, NULL);
#endif
#endif

sudo tar -cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmnet-only/

Use at your own risk!

Credit goes to http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1838

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- dr4c4n on January 25, 2017 at 17:34 said:
  
  works on Ubuntu 17.04 Daily, kernel 4.9.0-12-generic, gcc-6, build-essentials and linux headers
  
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  - Nilson on August 9, 2017 at 16:21 said:
    
    Awesome. Thanks a lot!
    
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- Blackwater_Pir8 on February 13, 2017 at 01:31 said:
  
  Fixed My Fedora 24 that I ran updates on this morning. I followed the steps above and everything is A-OK.
  VMware Workstation 12 Pro – 12.5.0 build-4352439
  Fedora 24 – 4.9.8-100.fc24.x86_64
  
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- E on February 14, 2017 at 03:09 said:
  
  Fantastic.
  
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- Jafeth on March 5, 2017 at 20:32 said:
  
  Gracias! me funciono a la perfeccion en Debian 9 stretch con el kernel 4.9.0-1-amd64
  
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Hugo Tai on January 13, 2017 at 05:37 said:

This worked on Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.9.3

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- Adam on March 9, 2017 at 13:01 said:
  
  Worked for me too!
  Thanks!
  
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Jose Luis Mantilla on January 16, 2017 at 19:35 said:

It’s fixed my VMWare on Fedora 25 with Kernel 4.9.x
Thank you so much

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jacket on January 17, 2017 at 14:19 said:

Thanks for this solution! It’s worked on my Fedora 25

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Salard-Deschandol Frédéric on January 18, 2017 at 10:51 said:

Worked for me too on Manjaro with kernel 4.9.0-1-rt1, thanks a lot!

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hirlu on January 18, 2017 at 11:09 said:

with this code how can i compile it? need some help

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Salard-Deschandol Frédéric on January 18, 2017 at 21:55 said:

Simply folow the workaround explained above by Bharath M : http://rglinuxtech.com/?p=1847#comment-25733 . It worked for me!

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Ademilson Souza on January 21, 2017 at 20:39 said:

Good afternoon

After applying the patch I got the following error:

2017-01-21T18: 37: 14.499-02: 00 | Vthread-4 | I125: Building module with command “/ usr / bin / make -j8 -C / tmp / modconfig-eP6X4N / vmnet-only auto-build HEADER_DIR = / lib / modules / 4.9.0-1-amd64 / build / include CC = / Usr / bin / gcc IS_GCC_3 = no ”
2017-01-21T18: 37: 14.501-02: 00 | Vthread-4 | W115: Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command.

Do I have to install any dependency?

My Kernel

Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64

My compiler

Gcc (Debian 6.3.0-3) 6.3.0 20170118
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

My linuxs readers

Linux-headers-4.9.0-1-amd64 is already the new version (4.9.2-2).
Linux-headers-4.9.0-1-amd64 configured to install manually.

Anyone have any idea what that might be?

Thanks

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Bharath M on January 24, 2017 at 04:20 said:

You may have older(or newer) versions of gcc pointing to /usr/bin/gcc.

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harkor on January 24, 2017 at 16:12 said:

Worked for me on Fedora 25 with kernel 4.9.5-200 🙂

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Heiko on January 30, 2017 at 13:59 said:

Worked for me on Debian GNU/Linux 9 with kernel 4.9.0-1-amd64.

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Salard-Deschandol Frédéric on January 31, 2017 at 09:39 said:

Form me too (4.9.0-1-rt2-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri Jan 20 16:10:14 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux)

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Tariq Malik on February 2, 2017 at 15:08 said:

Worked for me on Kali 2016.2 Kernel 4.9.0-kali-amd64

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- Jauhar Ali on February 10, 2017 at 20:02 said:
  
  Not for me on 4.9.0-kali1-amd64
  
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jude on February 5, 2017 at 07:46 said:

All went well, until I fired up a VM. VMPlayer kept freezing.

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nakul on February 8, 2017 at 06:56 said:

updated patch
http://www.hack4learn.com/2017/02/how-to-patch-kernel-module-in-vmware.html

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Keshav DAWOO on February 8, 2017 at 09:15 said:

Work on archlinux 4.9.6-1-ARCH

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Jauhar Ali on February 10, 2017 at 20:00 said:

Not working !!!! 🙁
Help me to shoot out the error!

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Plamen Dimitrov on February 17, 2017 at 09:07 said:

You might find this link userful: https://bugfixes.promisedev.com/ ; Direct download link: https://bugfixes.promisedev.com/download/patches/vmwkp4.9.tar
I made a small unofficial patch that applies the patch by Robert Gadsdon

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Mike Basinger on February 25, 2017 at 03:20 said:

Patch stopped working for me after 4.9.10 in Fedora 25.

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- Jonatan on February 27, 2017 at 22:18 said:
  
  still stoped?? how did you fixed mine is stopped too
  
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nickyruggs on February 28, 2017 at 15:46 said:

Looks like the mm.h header file has changed… this is out of my league anyone care to venture if we can just change the prototype?

[root@tomservo vmmon-only]# /usr/bin/make -j8 -C /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.9.12-200.fc25.x86_64/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no
make: Entering directory ‘/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only’
Using kernel build system.
/usr/bin/make -C /lib/modules/4.9.12-200.fc25.x86_64/build/include/.. SUBDIRS=$PWD SRCROOT=$PWD/. \
MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/usr/src/kernels/4.9.12-200.fc25.x86_64’
CC [M] /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o
/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c: In function ‘HostIFGetUserPages’:
/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1166:67: error: passing argument 5 of ‘get_user_pages’ from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
retval = get_user_pages((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
^~~~~~
In file included from /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23:0,
from /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:32:
./include/linux/mm.h:1280:6: note: expected ‘struct vm_area_struct **’ but argument is of type ‘struct page **’
long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:1166:13: error: too many arguments to function ‘get_user_pages’
retval = get_user_pages((unsigned long)uvAddr, numPages, 0, 0, ppages, NULL);
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/./include/compat_page.h:23:0,
from /tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.c:32:
./include/linux/mm.h:1280:6: note: declared here
long get_user_pages(unsigned long start, unsigned long nr_pages,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
scripts/Makefile.build:293: recipe for target ‘/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o’ failed
make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only/linux/hostif.o] Error 1
Makefile:1494: recipe for target ‘_module_/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only’ failed
make[1]: *** [_module_/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/kernels/4.9.12-200.fc25.x86_64’
Makefile:120: recipe for target ‘vmmon.ko’ failed
make: *** [vmmon.ko] Error 2
make: Leaving directory ‘/tmp/modconfig/vmmon-only’
[root@tomservo vmmon-only]#

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Servicefuzzi on March 2, 2017 at 10:41 said:

Works on 17.04 @ Kernel 4.10.0-8-generic.

THANKS for linking @Bharath M

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- kundan singh on June 9, 2017 at 12:52 said:
  
  Hi Servicefuzzi,
  
  i am facing the same issue on Ubuntu 17.4. Can you please help me to resolve this issue.
  
  Also find the last 10 line of the log file:
  
  2017-06-10T00:41:58.739+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Setting destination path for vmmon to “/lib/modules/4.10.0-22-generic/misc/vmmon.ko”.
  2017-06-10T00:41:58.739+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Extracting the vmmon source from “/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar”.
  2017-06-10T00:41:58.746+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Successfully extracted the vmmon source.
  2017-06-10T00:41:58.747+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Building module with command “/usr/bin/make -j4 -C /tmp/modconfig-SHaYyl/vmmon-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.10.0-22-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no”
  2017-06-10T00:42:00.932+05:30| vthread-3| W110: Failed to build vmmon. Failed to execute the build command.
  2017-06-10T00:42:00.934+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Setting destination path for vmnet to “/lib/modules/4.10.0-22-generic/misc/vmnet.ko”.
  2017-06-10T00:42:00.934+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Extracting the vmnet source from “/usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar”.
  2017-06-10T00:42:00.943+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Successfully extracted the vmnet source.
  2017-06-10T00:42:00.943+05:30| vthread-3| I120: Building module with command “/usr/bin/make -j4 -C /tmp/modconfig-SHaYyl/vmnet-only auto-build HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/4.10.0-22-generic/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc IS_GCC_3=no”
  2017-06-10T00:42:31.645+05:30| vthread-3| W110: Failed to build vmnet. Failed to execute the build command.
  
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Daniel Hansson on April 17, 2017 at 04:40 said:

Great post! This solves it on 4.10 as well. But remember to change from 4, 9, 0 to 4, 10, 0.

Thank you!

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