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>
Move most of the timer interrupt related PPC code to ppc_lib/interrupts.c
* Patch by Anders Larsen, 17 Sep 2003:
Bring ARM memory layout in sync with the documentation:
stack and malloc-heap are now located _below_ the U-Boot code
Add code for AmigaOne board
(preliminary merge to U-Boot, still WIP)
* Patch by Jon Diekema, 12 Nov 2002:
- Adding URL for IEEE OUI lookup
- Making the autoboot #defines dependent on CONFIG_AUTOBOOT_KEYED
being defined.
- In the CONFIG_EXTRA_ENV_SETTINGS #define, the root-on-initrd and
root-on-nfs macros are designed to switch how the default boot
method gets defined.
Wolfgang Denk
Stefan Roese
Peter Tyser
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
wdenk