When kernel 5.8 eliminated the export of kernel routines such as
__get_vm_area(), VirtualBox was forced to revert to code used before that
routine was introduced in 2.6.23. The resulting code will build but not load
with the error "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Exec format error".
Removal of the following piece of code allows the driver to load, but not run:
# define EXEC_MEMORY_SIZE 2097152 /* 2 MB */
extern uint8_t g_abExecMemory[EXEC_MEMORY_SIZE];
__asm__(".section execmemory, \"awx\", @progbits\n\t"
".align 32\n\t"
".globl g_abExecMemory\n"
"g_abExecMemory:\n\t"
".zero " RT_XSTR(EXEC_MEMORY_SIZE) "\n\t"
".type g_abExecMemory, @object\n\t"
".size g_abExecMemory, " RT_XSTR(EXEC_MEMORY_SIZE) "\n\t"
".text\n\t");
I do not have enough knowledge of x86 assembler to know what that code is
supposed to do or why it fails. I would appreciate help.
Thanks,
Larry
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