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fglrx-installer package

  1. Bug #642518
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Comment 5 for bug 642518

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Evan Broder (broder) wrote : Re: package fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu4 failed to install/upgrade: fglrx kernel module failed to build

This may be ever so slightly tricky. CVE-2010-3081 was a bug in compat_alloc_user_space, which is the function that compilation is erroring out on.

Previously, compat_alloc_user_space was implemented per-architecture, but after the patch, the per-architecture function was renamed to arch_compat_alloc_user_space, and a new function compat_alloc_user_space wraps arch_compat_alloc_user_space.

Unfortunately, though, whoever wrote this patch decided that the new compat_alloc_user_space would be exported as a GPL-only symbol, and fglrx is obviously not a GPL module, which means it's not allowed to use the new compat_alloc_user_space symbol.