575 make failure with newest kernel

[mikecl24]

NVIDIA Open GPU Kernel Modules Version

575.57.08-1.el9

Operating System and Version

Rocky Linux 9.8 (Blue Onyx)

Kernel Release

Linux HOSTNAME 5.14.0-687.12.1.el9_8.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri May 29 11:50:59 UTC 2026 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Please confirm you are running a stable release kernel (e.g. not a -rc). We do not accept bug reports for unreleased kernels.

• I am running on a stable kernel release.

Build Command

sudo dnf -y module switch-to nvidia-driver:575-open --allowerasing

Terminal output/Build Log

make.log

More Info

I believe this version compiled fine until last weeks kernel upgrade. The driver version is the latest available in the official repo.

[Binary-Eater]

@mikecl24 is that packaging from the Rocky Linux distribution? Can you share a link to the documentation you followed for this? We don't support driver branch 575 anymore so it is not actively receiving kernel compatible updates from NVIDIA. However, vanilla Linux kernel 5.14 is quite an old kernel. Despite that, the rhel based distributions might pick up a backport from a much newer vanilla kernel that could lead to this issue.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

[mikecl24]

@mikecl24 is that packaging from the Rocky Linux distribution? Can you share a link to the documentation you followed for this? We don't support driver branch 575 anymore so it is not actively receiving kernel compatible updates from NVIDIA. However, vanilla Linux kernel 5.14 is quite an old kernel. Despite that, the rhel based distributions might pick up a backport from a much newer vanilla kernel that could lead to this issue.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

I have basically followed the official docs, which use the NVIDIA RHEL repo, and am also doing the secure boot steps (but secure boot isn't the issue here). I had locked the driver to the 575 stream as back then vLLM/pytorch did not support newer CUDA versions in their default image (this is no longer the case though).

My "fix" was basically to upgrade the driver (I tested that 590, 595 and 610 compile fine), but I wanted to report the issue in case it is of interest here.