[U-Boot] fs/fs.c - error handling needed?

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Sat Oct 5 21:49:41 CEST 2013


Dear Simon,

with commit a8f6ab5 "fs: Add support for saving data to filesystems"
you add the function do_save() to U-Boot.  This includes the following
code (line numbers as of current master):

"fs/fs.c":

...
331         filename = argv[3];
332         addr = simple_strtoul(argv[4], NULL, cmdline_base);
333         bytes = simple_strtoul(argv[5], NULL, cmdline_base);
334         if (argc >= 7)
335                 pos = simple_strtoul(argv[6], NULL, cmdline_base);
336         else
337                 pos = 0;


Should we not perform at least minimal error checking, i. e. verify
that no garbage arguments have been passed to that function?

Best regards,
Viele Grüße,

Wolfgang Denk

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