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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 /include/kgdb.h
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 'include/kgdb.h')
-rw-r--r--include/kgdb.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/kgdb.h b/include/kgdb.h
index f543cd6e183..b6ba742ad33 100644
--- a/include/kgdb.h
+++ b/include/kgdb.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ extern int kgdb_getregs(struct pt_regs *, char *, int);
extern void kgdb_putreg(struct pt_regs *, int, char *, int);
extern void kgdb_putregs(struct pt_regs *, char *, int);
extern int kgdb_trap(struct pt_regs *);
-extern void kgdb_breakpoint(int argc, char *argv[]);
+extern void kgdb_breakpoint(int argc, char * const argv[]);
/* these functions are provided by the platform serial driver */
extern void kgdb_serial_init(void);