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>
The current files in examples are all standalone application examples,
so put them in their own subdirectory for organizational purposes
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
applications: instead of using (PPC-specific) system calls we now
use a jump table; please see doc/README.standalone for details
* Patch by Dave Westwood, 24 Jul 2003:
added support for Unity OS (a proprietary OS)
- remove trailing white space, trailing empty lines, C++ comments, etc.
- split cmd_boot.c (separate cmd_bdinfo.c and cmd_load.c)
* Patches by Kenneth Johansson, 25 Jun 2003:
- major rework of command structure
(work done mostly by Michal Cendrowski and Joakim Kristiansen)
Fixed rarp boot method for IA32 and other little-endian CPUs.
* Patch by Marc Singer, 28 May 2003:
Added port I/O commands.
* Patch by Matthew McClintock, 28 May 2003
- cpu/mpc824x/start.S: fix relocation code when booting from RAM
- minor patches for utx8245
* Patch by Daniel Engström, 28 May 2003:
x86 update
* Patch by Dave Ellis, 9 May 2003 + 27 May 2003:
add nand flash support to SXNI855T configuration
fix/extend nand flash support:
- fix 'nand erase' command so does not erase bad blocks
- fix 'nand write' command so does not write to bad blocks
- fix nand_probe() so handles no flash detected properly
- add doc/README.nand
- add .jffs2 and .oob options to nand read/write
- add 'nand bad' command to list bad blocks
- add 'clean' option to 'nand erase' to write JFFS2 clean markers
- make NAND read/write faster
* Patch by Rune Torgersen, 23 May 2003:
Update for MPC8266ADS board
Wolfgang Denk
Peter Tyser
Graeme Russ
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