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>
This patch fixes broken build introduced by commit
84bf7ca522 (api: remove un-needed
ifdef CONFIG_API already handle by the Makefile).
Signed-off-by: Piotr Ziecik <kosmo@semihalf.com>
Use the standard lowercase "xx" capitalization that other Freescale
architectures use for CPU defines to prevent confusion and errors
Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
This patch fixes a type mismatch and thus removes a compiler
warning when compiling with CONFIG_API on powerpc.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
This patch fixes building with CONFIG_API and CONFIG_USB_STORAGE.
USB_MAX_STOR_DEV is defined in include/usb.h, but
needed in api/api_storage.c.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
This fixes a build breakage with CONFIG_API enabled, which appeared after
the recent changes in the U-Boot build system.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
This is an API for external (standalone) applications running on top of
U-Boot, and is meant to be more extensible and robust than the existing
jumptable mechanism. It is similar to UNIX syscall approach. See api/README
for more details.
Included is the demo application using this new framework (api_examples).
Please note this is still an experimental feature, and is turned off by
default.
Signed-off-by: Rafal Jaworowski <raj@semihalf.com>
