WITNESS warning output from 6.0-BETA3

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Tue Aug 30 18:17:45 GMT 2005


On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:12:37PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I get the following output under FreeBSD 6.0-BETA3 when
> WITNESS is enabled.  It doesn't seem to cause any harm,
> though.  I cvsupped this system to RELENG_6 a few days
> ago.
> 
> I have no idea what is causing this output, whether 
> should worry about it, or even whether this is the right
> list to report or ask about it.  :-)
> 
> The output occurs when booting, right when the interface
> (bfe0) is configured for the first time.  I have a small
> self-made script in /etc/rc.d which configures bfe0
> several times with different IP addresses and performs
> a ping test in order to find out in which network the
> notebook is located, then symlinks various files in /etc
> depending on the result.  The below output happens when
> that script is executed.

This is fixed in HEAD, rev 1.195 of sys/net/if_ethersubr.c.  It probably
should be further fixed by removing the MALLOC() macros.

-- Brooks
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