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 --- arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/sparc/include/asm') diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h index d55cc863da..12901bcef8 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/prom.h @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct linux_mem_v0 { /* Arguments sent to the kernel from the boot prompt. */ struct linux_arguments_v0 { - char *argv[8]; + char * const argv[8]; char args[100]; char boot_dev[2]; int boot_dev_ctrl; -- cgit