[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 1/1] tools: sunxi: avoid read after end of string

[Boris Brezillon]

On Thu,  4 May 2017 22:26:42 +0200
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de> wrote:

> The evaluation of option -c is incorrect:
> 
> According to the C99 standard endptr in the first strtol is always
> set as &endptr is not NULL.
> So the first part of the or condition is always true.
> If all digits in optarg are valid endptr will point to the closing \0
> and the second strtol will read beyond the end of the string optarg
> points to.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>

Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>

> ---
> v2:
>   Simplify the logical expression.
> v1:
>   In the original patch I missed that envptr is always set in strtol
>   and used an unnecessary check if endptr is non-NULL.
>   [PATCH 1/1] tools: sunxi: avoid possible null pointer dereference
>   https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/758224/
> ---
>  tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c b/tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c
> index d538a38813..a367f11774 100644
> --- a/tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c
> +++ b/tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c
> @@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
>  			break;
>  		case 'c':
>  			info.ecc_strength = strtol(optarg, &endptr, 0);
> -			if (endptr || *endptr == '/')
> +			if (*endptr == '/')
>  				info.ecc_step_size = strtol(endptr + 1, NULL, 0);
>  			break;
>  		case 'p':