[PATCH] cmd: strings: interpret second argument as a byte count
Naveen Kumar Chaudhary
naveen.osdev at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 17:23:44 CEST 2026
The help text advertises "<addr> [byte count]" but do_strings()
stores argv[2] directly into last_addr and the loop condition tests
"addr < last_addr", i.e. it treats the value as an absolute end
address. When invoked as documented (e.g. "strings 0x40000000
0x100") the loop condition fails immediately because the supplied
count is far below start_addr, and the command prints nothing.
Compute last_addr as start_addr + hextoul(argv[2], NULL) so the
argument is used as a length in bytes, matching the help. The
existing repeat-mode fixup (last_addr = addr + (last_addr -
start_addr)) continues to preserve the same byte-count window
across CMD_FLAG_REPEAT.
Signed-off-by: Naveen Kumar Chaudhary <naveen.osdev at gmail.com>
---
cmd/strings.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/cmd/strings.c b/cmd/strings.c
index beac2a6e6b3..3727c00341a 100644
--- a/cmd/strings.c
+++ b/cmd/strings.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ int do_strings(struct cmd_tbl *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char *const argv[])
if ((flag & CMD_FLAG_REPEAT) == 0) {
start_addr = (char *)hextoul(argv[1], NULL);
if (argc > 2)
- last_addr = (char *)hextoul(argv[2], NULL);
+ last_addr = start_addr + hextoul(argv[2], NULL);
else
last_addr = (char *)-1;
}
--
2.43.0
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