Xoscope nuisance console messages on Pi4 running -current

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue May 4 18:11:30 UTC 2021


On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 12:38 AM bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:

> After a successful compile of audio/xoscope on a Pi4 running current a
> stream of messages appeared on the console and in the security log
> while xoscope was running:
>
>
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045006
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045005
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045002
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045006
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045005
> +WARNING pid 26370 (xoscope): ioctl sign-extension ioctl ffffffffc0045002
>
> They seem to come at a fairly high rate and clutter the logfiles, but
> apart from that nuisance nothing else seemed visibly amiss.
>
> Are they of any significance?
>

I fixed this a while ago, but some people copied our definitions which
weren't sufficiently careful in using unsigned in places to avoid sign
extension....

Warner


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