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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/sh
parentb218ccb5435e64ac2318bb8b6c9594ef1cc724cd (diff)
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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/sh')
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/cpu/sh2/cpu.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/cpu/sh3/cpu.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cpu.c2
-rw-r--r--arch/sh/lib/bootm.c2
4 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sh/cpu/sh2/cpu.c b/arch/sh/cpu/sh2/cpu.c
index e0cb047..6bbedd9 100644
--- a/arch/sh/cpu/sh2/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/sh/cpu/sh2/cpu.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ int cleanup_before_linux(void)
return 0;
}
-int do_reset(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_reset(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
disable_interrupts();
reset_cpu(0);
diff --git a/arch/sh/cpu/sh3/cpu.c b/arch/sh/cpu/sh3/cpu.c
index 8261d29..3e9caad 100644
--- a/arch/sh/cpu/sh3/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/sh/cpu/sh3/cpu.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ int cleanup_before_linux(void)
return 0;
}
-int do_reset(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_reset(cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
disable_interrupts();
reset_cpu(0);
diff --git a/arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cpu.c b/arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cpu.c
index be410ab..f136758 100644
--- a/arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/sh/cpu/sh4/cpu.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ int cleanup_before_linux (void)
return 0;
}
-int do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
disable_interrupts();
reset_cpu (0);
diff --git a/arch/sh/lib/bootm.c b/arch/sh/lib/bootm.c
index ae1f869..9c58ed7 100644
--- a/arch/sh/lib/bootm.c
+++ b/arch/sh/lib/bootm.c
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static void hexdump(unsigned char *buf, int len)
}
#endif
-int do_bootm_linux(int flag, int argc, char *argv[], bootm_headers_t *images)
+int do_bootm_linux(int flag, int argc, char * const argv[], bootm_headers_t *images)
{
/* Linux kernel load address */
void (*kernel) (void) = (void (*)(void))images->ep;