From 54841ab50c20d6fa6c9cc3eb826989da3a22d934 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:00:46 +0200 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Mike Frysinger --- include/common.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/common.h') diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h index 48f6a1a074..eddec22752 100644 --- a/include/common.h +++ b/include/common.h @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ void show_boot_progress(int val); int cpu_status(int nr); int cpu_reset(int nr); int cpu_disable(int nr); -int cpu_release(int nr, int argc, char *argv[]); +int cpu_release(int nr, int argc, char * const argv[]); #endif #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ -- cgit v1.2.3