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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/trizepsiv
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 'board/trizepsiv')
-rw-r--r--board/trizepsiv/eeprom.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/board/trizepsiv/eeprom.c b/board/trizepsiv/eeprom.c
index b6b16bf..fede2e0 100644
--- a/board/trizepsiv/eeprom.c
+++ b/board/trizepsiv/eeprom.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
#include <command.h>
#include <dm9000.h>
-static int do_read_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]) {
+static int do_read_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]) {
unsigned int i;
u8 data[2];
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int do_read_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *a
return (0);
}
-static int do_write_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]) {
+static int do_write_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]) {
int offset,value;
if (argc < 4) {
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static int do_write_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *
return (0);
}
-int do_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]) {
+int do_dm9000_eeprom ( cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]) {
if (argc < 2) {
cmd_usage(cmdtp);
return 1;