24 Jul, 2013

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09 Aug, 2010

1 commit


05 Jul, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger

    Wolfgang Denk
     

22 Dec, 2009

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03 Dec, 2009

1 commit


13 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • 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

    Wolfgang Denk
     

28 Jan, 2009

1 commit

  • 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

    Peter Tyser
     

19 Aug, 2008

1 commit

  • The 'license' command includes the U-Boot license (GPLv2) into the
    actual bootloader binary. The license text can be shown interactively
    at the U-Boot commandline.

    For products where the commandline can actually be accessed by the
    end user, this helps to prevent inadvertent GPL violations, since the
    GPLv2 license text can no longer be 'forgotten' to be included into
    the product.

    The 'license' command can be enabled by CONFIG_CMD_LICENSE.

    Signed-off-by: Harald Welte

    Harald Welte