23 Jul, 2013

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 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • 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
    Acked-by: Wolfgang Denk
    Acked-by: Detlev Zundel
    Acked-by: Kim Phillips
    Cc: Peter Tyser
    Cc: Anatolij Gustschin

    Stefan Roese