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>
As discussed on the list, move "arch/ppc" to "arch/powerpc" to
better match the Linux directory structure.
Please note that this patch also changes the "ppc" target in
MAKEALL to "powerpc" to match this new infrastructure. But "ppc"
is kept as an alias for now, to not break compatibility with
scripts using this name.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Detlev Zundel <dzu@denx.de>
Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Cc: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
- Make MPC5200 boards evaluate the SVR to print processor name and
version in checkcpu() (cpu/mpc5xxx/cpu.c).
* Patch by Kai-Uwe Bloem, 06 May 2004:
Fix endianess problem in cramfs code
* Make 5200 reset command _really_ reset the board, without running
any other code after it
* Fix flash mapping and display on P3G4 board
* Patch by Kyle Harris, 15 Jul 2003:
- add support for Intel IXP425 CPU
- add support for IXDP425 eval board
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Peter Tyser
Ben Warren
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
Wolfgang Denk
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