[Bug 1671133] Re: systemtap 3.0 doesn't work with 4.10 kernel

[Jeremy Bicha]

This bug was fixed in the package systemtap - 3.1-2

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systemtap (3.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Upload to Unstable
  * Fix kernel version detection for custom built kernels running
    on Debian (Closes: #856461)

 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org>  Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:02:36 +0530

systemtap (3.1-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Ritesh Raj Sarraf ]
  * New upstream version 3.1
  * Refresh patches, and drop some that are part of new release
  * Bump debhelper dependency to 9

 -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org>  Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:11:22 +0530

** Changed in: systemtap (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  systemtap 3.0 doesn't work with 4.10 kernel

Status in systemtap package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Installing systemtap on zesty results in a non-functional system tap:
  $ stap -v -e 'probe oneshot { println("hello world") }'

  Pass 1: parsed user script and 111 library scripts using 49620virt/38420res/5752shr/33072data kb, in 230usr/10sys/238real ms.
  Pass 2: analyzed script: 1 probe, 1 function, 0 embeds, 0 globals using 50280virt/39452res/6008shr/33732data kb, in 0usr/0sys/7real ms.
  Pass 3: translated to C into "/tmp/stap33SHdB/stap_b857718a445c9d5eb902617b6fc310fb_989_src.c" using 50416virt/40220res/6548shr/33868data kb, in 0usr/0sys/0real ms.
  In file included from /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/runtime.h:209:0,
                   from /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/runtime.h:24,
                   from /tmp/stap33SHdB/stap_b857718a445c9d5eb902617b6fc310fb_989_src.c:25:
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/access_process_vm.h: In function ‘__access_process_vm_’:
  /usr/share/systemtap/runtime/linux/access_process_vm.h:36:61: error: passing argument 6 of ‘get_user_pages_remote’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Werror=int-conversion]
         ret = get_user_pages_remote (tsk, mm, addr, 1, write, 1, &page, &vma);
  ...

  
  Looking at the changelog for systemtap there are fixes in v3.1 for a 4.10 kernel. Compiling the upstream system tap results is functional:
  $ ./stap -e 'probe oneshot { println("hello world") }'
  hello world

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