Error inserting scsi_wait_scan - Invalid module format

Question

The system is CentOS 6.3.

I've compile a new kernel and the resulting rpm installed on a target machine. When booting from the kernel I've receive the error in a title of the question.

I've extracted corresponding initramfs and compared output of:

   modprobe --dump-modversions /path/to/scsi_wait_scan.ko

with entries in corresponding /boot/symvers-*. All symbols checksums fit, including of module_layout.

Is there a way to extract symvers from kernel itself?

Answer 1

I've found the problem.

Short answer

The problem was that I installed kernel rpm (B) over already installed kernel rpm (A), without removing it first.

Detaild answer

scsi_mod.ko was owned only by (A). While installing (B), scsi_mod.ko was in /lib/modules/. When intramfs was created in (B)'s postinstall script. depmod decided that scsi_wait_scan.ko depends on scsi_mod.ko, while both build against different configurations.

Later when booting the machine, kernel started run initramfs. This in turn modprob'ed scsi_wait_scan.ko. modprobe tried loaded as a consiquence scsi_mod.ko, which is not appropriate to the current kernel, thus resulting to error I saw.