Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 2 May 2016 21:50:47 +0200
From:      Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
To:        Holger Kipp <Holger.Kipp@alogis.com>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: WARNING ioctl sign-extension  ioctl FFFFFFFF8004667e / CommVault
Message-ID:  <20160502195047.GE2282@home.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20160502192330.GD2282@home.opsec.eu>
References:  <810DA7C4-041E-44BA-B471-4207EB223A6A@alogis.com> <20160502192330.GD2282@home.opsec.eu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi!

> It seems this is a general problem, but mostly on the application
> side. See for example:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147938
> 
> which shows that the application code uses the wrong type
> for an ioctl argument.

See

/usr/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c:sys_ioctl()

where the wrong parameter is detected and the error sent to the
kernel log.

-- 
pi@opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         4 years to go !



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20160502195047.GE2282>