WARNING ioctl sign-extension ioctl FFFFFFFF8004667e / CommVault

[Kurt Jaeger]

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.

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