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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 /board/esd/ar405
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 'board/esd/ar405')
-rw-r--r--board/esd/ar405/ar405.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/board/esd/ar405/ar405.c b/board/esd/ar405/ar405.c
index a632cb42d6..21b2432c47 100644
--- a/board/esd/ar405/ar405.c
+++ b/board/esd/ar405/ar405.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
/*cmd_boot.c*/
-extern int do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]);
+extern int do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]);
extern void lxt971_no_sleep(void);
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int checkboard (void)
/*
* Some test routines
*/
-int do_digtest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_digtest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
int i;
int k;
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ struct io {
short dummy;
};
-int do_anatest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_anatest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
short val;
int i;
@@ -353,7 +353,7 @@ void cyclicInt(void *ptr)
}
-int do_inctest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_inctest(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
ulong *incin;
int i;