[U-Boot] [PATCH v2] cmd: fastboot: Validate user input

Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko at linaro.org
Tue Jul 24 16:39:52 UTC 2018


On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> On 29 June 2018 at 11:59, Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org> wrote:
>> In case when user provides '-' as USB controller index, like this:
>>
>>     => fastboot -
>>
>> data abort occurs in strcmp() function in do_fastboot(), here:
>>
>>     if (!strcmp(argv[1], "udp"))
>>
>> (tested on BeagleBone Black).
>>
>> That's because argv[1] is NULL when user types in the '-', and null
>> pointer dereference occurs in strcmp() (which is ok according to C
>> standard specification). So we must validate user input to prevent such
>> behavior.
>>
>> While at it, check also the result of strtoul() function and handle
>> error cases properly.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>
>> ---
>> Changes for v2:
>>   - replace argv check with argc check
>>   - add mentioning of testing platform in commit message
>>
>>  cmd/fastboot.c | 13 ++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Hi Lukasz,

Can you please review and merge?

Thanks!


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