[U-Boot-Users] PATCH for cmd_mem.c:do_mem_mtest()

Ladislav Michl ladis at linux-mips.org
Tue Sep 13 18:31:14 CEST 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:18:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > ChangeLog:
> > * Patch by Andrew Dyer, 13 September 2005:
> > if CFG_ALT_MEMTEST is defined without
> > CFG_MEMTEST_SCRATCH, cmd_mem.c
> > code will dereference a null pointer.  Change
> 
> No, it does not.  It  just  points  to  address  0x0000.  This  is  a
> perfectly valid address on many systems.

I sent patch to mailing list few months ago which changes NULL to
0x00000000 and adds some comment to avoid such confusion (I burned
my fingers the same way :-)).

ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/ladis/u-boot/cmd_mem_dummy_addr.diff

Best regards,
	ladis




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