Re: Nvidia drivers

[Darac Marjal]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:03:22PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:

On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote:

Hey all,

        I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no
problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16
and it broke the nvidia driver.

        Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it complains
about not finding kernel headers (which are installed) and quits.

        Any ideas on how I can rebuild the kernel module for the new
kernel version?

Thanks
Francisco

This requires a workaround, a kernel parameter at boot.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="slab_common.usercopy_fallback=y"

Edit the config file like this,

$sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Then run $sudo update-grub.

Actually, as of version 390.67-2, that's no longer needed. Quoting [1]:

        nvidia-graphics-drivers (390.67-2) unstable; urgency=high

          * Add kmem_cache_create_usercopy.patch from Red Hat, fixing "Bad or 
missing
                usercopy whitelist? Kernel memory exposure attempt detected 
from SLUB
                object 'nvidia_stack_cache'" on Linux kernels that have disabled
                CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY_FALLBACK (i.e. linux-image-4.16.0-2-* 
or newer).
                (Closes: #901919)

         -- Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org>  Thu, 05 Jul 2018 02:01:31 +0200

[1] 
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/non-free/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_390.67-2_changelog

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