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author | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2010-06-28 22:00:46 +0200 |
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committer | Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> | 2010-07-04 23:55:42 +0200 |
commit | 54841ab50c20d6fa6c9cc3eb826989da3a22d934 (patch) | |
tree | 400f22f0a12ff0ae6c472bed6ac648befc1744a2 /include/kgdb.h | |
parent | b218ccb5435e64ac2318bb8b6c9594ef1cc724cd (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 'include/kgdb.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/kgdb.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/kgdb.h b/include/kgdb.h index f543cd6..b6ba742 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); |