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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 /board/siemens/common | |
parent | b218ccb5435e64ac2318bb8b6c9594ef1cc724cd (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 'board/siemens/common')
-rw-r--r-- | board/siemens/common/fpga.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/board/siemens/common/fpga.c b/board/siemens/common/fpga.c index 4b45902aa2..5660c09148 100644 --- a/board/siemens/common/fpga.c +++ b/board/siemens/common/fpga.c @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int fpga_load (fpga_t* fpga, ulong addr, int checkall) /* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . */ -int do_fpga (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]) +int do_fpga (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]) { ulong addr = 0; int i; |