Endpoint Protection for Linux fails to compile kernel modules on the CentOS 7 4.15 kernel

Products

• Endpoint Protection

Issue/Introduction

When installing Symantec Endpoint Protection for Linux (SEPFL) on a CentOS 7 machine that is using Google's Bottleneck Bandwidth and RTT (BBR) kernel version 4.15.x, the AutoProtect kernel modules fail to compile.

Environment

CentOS with Google BBR kernel

Cause

Auto compile for Kernel modules failed because of a change in the kernel structure ‘struct timer_list’.

Resolution

This issue is fixed in Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.2 RU1. For information on how to obtain the latest build of Symantec Endpoint Protection, see Download the latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection.