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>
This commit is contained in:
Wolfgang Denk 2010-06-28 22:00:46 +02:00
parent b218ccb543
commit 54841ab50c
295 changed files with 671 additions and 670 deletions

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@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ struct cmd_tbl_s {
int maxargs; /* maximum number of arguments */
int repeatable; /* autorepeat allowed? */
/* Implementation function */
int (*cmd)(struct cmd_tbl_s *, int, int, char *[]);
int (*cmd)(struct cmd_tbl_s *, int, int, char * const []);
char *usage; /* Usage message (short) */
#ifdef CONFIG_SYS_LONGHELP
char *help; /* Help message (long) */
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE
/* do auto completion on the arguments */
int (*complete)(int argc, char *argv[], char last_char, int maxv, char *cmdv[]);
int (*complete)(int argc, char * const argv[], char last_char, int maxv, char *cmdv[]);
#endif
};
@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ extern cmd_tbl_t __u_boot_cmd_end;
/* common/command.c */
int _do_help (cmd_tbl_t *cmd_start, int cmd_items, cmd_tbl_t * cmdtp, int
flag, int argc, char *argv[]);
flag, int argc, char * const argv[]);
cmd_tbl_t *find_cmd(const char *cmd);
cmd_tbl_t *find_cmd_tbl (const char *cmd, cmd_tbl_t *table, int table_len);
@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ extern int cmd_auto_complete(const char *const prompt, char *buf, int *np, int *
*
* All commands use a common argument format:
*
* void function (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[]);
* void function (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[]);
*/
typedef void command_t (cmd_tbl_t *, int, int, char *[]);