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>
CCM/SCM-Ergaenzungen fuer U-Boot und Linux:
-------------------------------------------
Es gibt nun ein gemeinsames Kommando zum Laden der FPGAs:
=> help fpga
fpga fpga status [name] - print FPGA status
fpga reset [name] - reset FPGA
fpga load [name] addr - load FPGA configuration data
Der Name kann beim CCM-Module auch weggelassen werden.
Die Laengenangabe und damit "puma_len" ist nicht mehr
noetig:
=> fpga load puma 40600000
FPGA load PUMA: addr 40600000: (00000005)... done
Die MTD-Partitionierung kann nun mittels "bootargs" ueber-
geben werden:
=> printenv addmtd
addmtd=setenv bootargs ${bootargs}
mtdparts=0:256k(U-Boot)ro,768k(Kernel),-(Rest)\;1:-(myJFFS2)
Die Portierung auf SMC ist natuerlich noch nicht getestet.
Wolfgang Grandegger (04.06.2002)