u-boot-brain/common/cmd_console.c
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

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/*
* (C) Copyright 2000
* Wolfgang Denk, DENX Software Engineering, wd@denx.de.
*
* See file CREDITS for list of people who contributed to this
* project.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
* the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
* MA 02111-1307 USA
*/
/*
* Boot support
*/
#include <common.h>
#include <command.h>
#include <stdio_dev.h>
extern void _do_coninfo (void);
int do_coninfo (cmd_tbl_t * cmd, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
{
int l;
struct list_head *list = stdio_get_list();
struct list_head *pos;
struct stdio_dev *dev;
/* Scan for valid output and input devices */
puts ("List of available devices:\n");
list_for_each(pos, list) {
dev = list_entry(pos, struct stdio_dev, list);
printf ("%-8s %08x %c%c%c ",
dev->name,
dev->flags,
(dev->flags & DEV_FLAGS_SYSTEM) ? 'S' : '.',
(dev->flags & DEV_FLAGS_INPUT) ? 'I' : '.',
(dev->flags & DEV_FLAGS_OUTPUT) ? 'O' : '.');
for (l = 0; l < MAX_FILES; l++) {
if (stdio_devices[l] == dev) {
printf ("%s ", stdio_names[l]);
}
}
putc ('\n');
}
return 0;
}
/***************************************************/
U_BOOT_CMD(
coninfo, 3, 1, do_coninfo,
"print console devices and information",
""
);