Linux Device Driver: Symbol "memcpy" not found

Question

I'm trying to write a Linux device driver. I've got it to work really well, until I tried to use "memcpy". I don't even get a compiler error, when I "make" it just warns me:

WARNING: "memcpy" [/root/homedir/sv/main.ko] undefined!

OK and when I try to load via insmod, I get on the console:

insmod: error inserting './main.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

and on dmesg:

main: Unknown symbol memcpy (err 0)

I include the following:

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
#include <linux/init.h>

#include <linux/kernel.h> /* printk() */
#include <linux/slab.h>  /* kmalloc() */
#include <linux/fs.h>  /* everything... */
#include <linux/errno.h> /* error codes */
#include <linux/types.h> /* size_t */
#include <linux/fcntl.h> /* O_ACCMODE */
#include <linux/cdev.h>
#include <asm/system.h>  /* cli(), *_flags */
#include <asm/uaccess.h> /* copy_*_user */

The function using memcpy:

static int dc_copy_to_user(char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *f_pos, 
        struct sv_data_dev *dev)
{
    char data[MAX_KEYLEN];
    size_t i = 0;

    /* Copy the bulk as long as there are 10 more bytes to copy */
    while (i < (count + MAX_KEYLEN)) {
        memcpy(data, &dev->data[*f_pos + i], MAX_KEYLEN);
        ec_block(dev->key, data, MAX_KEYLEN);
        if (copy_to_user(&buf[i], data, MAX_KEYLEN)) {
            return -EFAULT;
        }
        i += MAX_KEYLEN;
     }

     return 0;
 }

Could someone help me? I thought the thing was in linux/string.h, but I get the error just the same. I'm using kernel 2.6.37-rc1 (I'm doing in in user-mode-linux, which works only since 2.6.37-rc1). Any help is greatly appreciated.

# Context dependent makefile that can be called directly and will invoke itself
# through the kernel module building system.
KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux

ifneq ($(KERNELRELEASE),)

EXTRA_CFLAGS+=-I $(PWD) -ARCH=um
obj-m := main.o

else

KERNELDIR ?= /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build
PWD = $(shell pwd)

all:
 $(MAKE) V=1 ARCH=um -C $(KERNELDIR) M=$(PWD) modules

clean:
 rm -rf Module.symvers .*.cmd *.ko .*.o *.o *.mod.c .tmp_versions *.order

endif

Answer 1

I'm doing it in user-mode-linux

Could you try without User-mode Linux?

The kernel does not link with the libc but UML is an exception. That could explain your linking error.