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authorWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>2010-06-28 22:00:46 +0200
committerWolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>2010-07-04 23:55:42 +0200
commit54841ab50c20d6fa6c9cc3eb826989da3a22d934 (patch)
tree400f22f0a12ff0ae6c472bed6ac648befc1744a2 /arch/sparc/include
parentb218ccb5435e64ac2318bb8b6c9594ef1cc724cd (diff)
Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified.
The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to commands. Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done by changing the code into "char * const argv[]". This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused after adding a new command, which used the following argument processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot: int main (int argc, char **argv) { while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') { /* ====> */ while (*++*argv) { switch (**argv) { case 'd': debug++; break; ... default: usage (); } } } ... } The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by the shell. With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with an error: increment of read-only location '*argv' N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this: while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') { char *arg = *argv; while (*++arg) { switch (*arg) { ... Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
index d55cc863da2..12901bcef85 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct linux_mem_v0 {
/* Arguments sent to the kernel from the boot prompt. */
struct linux_arguments_v0 {
- char *argv[8];
+ char * const argv[8];
char args[100];
char boot_dev[2];
int boot_dev_ctrl;