A relatively big portion of barebox init sequence is running without configured exception vector. As result we may not detect some NULL pointer dereferences (as on iMX6) or just silently freeze (as on stm32). So, add sanity check to detect this kind of issues as early as possible. Signed-off-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/string.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c index 717b59aa50..7548fd3581 100644 --- a/lib/string.c +++ b/lib/string.c @@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ int strcmp(const char * cs,const char * ct) { register signed char __res; + BUG_ON(!cs || !ct); + while (1) { if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++) break; @@ -229,6 +231,8 @@ int strncmp(const char * cs, const char * ct, size_t count) { register signed char __res = 0; + BUG_ON(!cs || !ct); + while (count) { if ((__res = *cs - *ct++) != 0 || !*cs++) break; -- 2.28.0 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox