VMware-Player 6.0.1, Ubuntu 13.10, kernel 3.13.5 patch

I didn’t upgrade my kernel for a while since 3.12. After upgrading the Linux kernel to version 3.13.5-031305-generic (published today in the Ubuntu mainline kernel PPA) on Ubuntu Saucy, vmplayer 6.0.1 build-1379776 (x86_64) threw the following error while compiling the vmnet module:

# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all
...
/tmp/modconfig-OEBtR5/vmnet-only/filter.c:206:1: error: conflicting types for ‘VNetFilterHookFn’
 VNetFilterHookFn(unsigned int hooknum,                 // IN:
 ^
/tmp/modconfig-OEBtR5/vmnet-only/filter.c:64:18: note: previous declaration of ‘VNetFilterHookFn’ was here
 static nf_hookfn VNetFilterHookFn;
...

NetFilter is enabled and compiled in with the generic mainline kernel. I wanted to keep the change localized to the vmnet driver code and used the same signature from filter.c that  VNetFilterHookFn uses. I have uploaded the patch here.

To apply the patch and recompile the modules run the following as root:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar -xf vmnet.tar
# cd vmnet-only
# patch < filter.patch
# cd ..
# tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only/
# vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

After applying the patch vmplayer compiled without any further issues and the network works fine on my VMs.