u-boot-brain/board/mpl/common
Wolfgang Denk 54841ab50c 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>
2010-07-04 23:55:42 +02:00
..
common_util.c Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified. 2010-07-04 23:55:42 +02:00
common_util.h mpl: printing current stdio devices cleanup 2009-07-19 01:05:51 +02:00
flash.c ppc4xx: Big cleanup of PPC4xx defines 2009-09-11 10:35:58 +02:00
isa.c stdio/device: rework function naming convention 2009-07-18 00:27:46 +02:00
isa.h * Patches by Denis Peter, 9 Sep 2003: 2003-09-10 22:30:53 +00:00
kbd.c stdio/device: rework function naming convention 2009-07-18 00:27:46 +02:00
kbd.h Initial revision 2002-03-08 21:31:05 +00:00
memtst.c mpl: Remove memory test relocation fixups 2009-10-03 10:17:56 +02:00
pci_parts.h Big white-space cleanup. 2008-05-21 00:14:08 +02:00
pci.c ppc: Remove pci config table pointer relocation fixups 2009-10-03 10:17:56 +02:00
piix4_pci.h * Patches by Denis Peter, 9 Sep 2003: 2003-09-10 22:30:53 +00:00
usb_uhci.c Merge git://git.denx.de/u-boot into x1 2008-10-21 09:18:01 +02:00
usb_uhci.h * Code cleanup: 2003-06-27 21:31:46 +00:00