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Author SHA1 Message Date
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
Wolfgang Denk
a89c33db96 General help message cleanup
Many of the help messages were not really helpful; for example, many
commands that take no arguments would not print a correct synopsis
line, but "No additional help available." which is not exactly wrong,
but not helpful either.

Commit ``Make "usage" messages more helpful.'' changed this
partially. But it also became clear that lots of "Usage" and "Help"
messages (fields "usage" and "help" in struct cmd_tbl_s respective)
were actually redundant.

This patch cleans this up - for example:

Before:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt         - Read temperature from digital thermometer and thermostat.

After:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Read temperature from Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2009-06-12 20:47:16 +02:00
Peter Tyser
2fb2604d5c Command usage cleanup
Remove command name from all command "usage" fields and update
common/command.c to display "name - usage" instead of
just "usage". Also remove newlines from command usage fields.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
2009-01-28 08:49:52 +01:00
Wolfgang Denk
a49d10cf02 Minor coding style cleanup, updte CHANGELOG
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-08-25 23:45:41 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
4b0708093e Coding Style cleanup, update CHANGELOG
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2008-08-14 14:41:06 +02:00
William Juul
90ef117b68 Incorporate yaffs2 into U-boot
To use YAFFS2 define CONFIG_YAFFS2

Signed-off-by: William Juul <william.juul@tandberg.com>
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
2008-08-12 11:31:19 -05:00