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Date:      Wed, 08 Apr 2020 23:10:10 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 245463] Driver sysctl tunables that use strings fail with error 14
Message-ID:  <bug-245463-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 245463
           Summary: Driver sysctl tunables that use strings fail with
                    error 14
           Product: Base System
           Version: CURRENT
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com

When changing driver tunables that use strings with kenv, they fail with er=
ror
14. For example Intel drivers rx/tx descriptor tunables fail with:

Setting sysctl dev.ixl.0.iflib.override_ntxds failed: 14
Setting sysctl dev.ixl.0.iflib.override_nrxds failed: 14

More than likely this is caused by https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23378. This
patch has made changes to the sysctl_handle_string() function. The copyin()
function  is now used to copy bytes from user space to kernel space. The
problem is that the tunables are already located in the kernel space (kenv)=
. It
turns out that changing string parameters using sysctl works well, but if y=
ou
set string parameters from kenv, the copyin() function fails with error 14.

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