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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/cpu.c b/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/cpu.c
index 14d3ce448a..ab6f11dade 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/cpu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/cpu/74xx_7xx/cpu.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ soft_restart(unsigned long addr)
     !defined(CONFIG_PPMC7XX)
 /* no generic way to do board reset. simply call soft_reset. */
 void
-do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *argv[])
+do_reset (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
 {
 	ulong addr;
 	/* flush and disable I/D cache */