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>
diff --git a/common/cmd_fdt.c b/common/cmd_fdt.c
index 5df79ae..cd4c6de 100644
--- a/common/cmd_fdt.c
+++ b/common/cmd_fdt.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
DECLARE_GLOBAL_DATA_PTR;
static int fdt_valid(void);
-static int fdt_parse_prop(char **newval, int count, char *data, int *len);
+static int fdt_parse_prop(char *const*newval, int count, char *data, int *len);
static int fdt_print(const char *pathp, char *prop, int depth);
/*
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
/*
* Flattened Device Tree command, see the help for parameter definitions.
*/
-int do_fdt (cmd_tbl_t * cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+int do_fdt (cmd_tbl_t * cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
if (argc < 2) {
cmd_usage(cmdtp);
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@
* data: A bytestream to be placed in the property
* len: The length of the resulting bytestream
*/
-static int fdt_parse_prop(char **newval, int count, char *data, int *len)
+static int fdt_parse_prop(char * const *newval, int count, char *data, int *len)
{
char *cp; /* temporary char pointer */
char *newp; /* temporary newval char pointer */