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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
Ladislav Michl
89e94d81ed NetStar: make crcit utility more readable
This patch makes the crcit utility more readable

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Sandeep Paulraj <s-paulraj@ti.com>
2010-02-12 12:31:54 -06:00
Ladislav Michl
3f464b0fc0 NetStar: update crcit utility
Make crc32 function to match its prototype. Use more meaningful identifiers.

Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <ladis@linux-mips.org>
2009-03-29 16:04:51 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
87a5c73d66 Update NetStar board
Patch by Ladislav Michl, 03 Nov 2005
2006-07-21 11:38:33 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
ac7eb8a315 Update of new NAND code
Patch by Ladislav Michl, 13 Sep 2005
2005-09-14 23:53:32 +02:00