Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] set boot sequence from command line

[Bernhard Kauer <kauer@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>]

It is perhaps not the best idea to read behind the
end of the boot_device string. It would be safer to
declare boot_device as 'static char boot_device[4]'
and use a strncpy.


	Bernhard


> diff --git a/hw/pc.c b/hw/pc.c
> index a0c824f..3c552ff 100644
> --- a/hw/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/pc.c
> +    /* set boot devices, and disable floppy signature check if requested */
> +    rtc_set_memory(s, 0x3d,
> +            boot_device2nible(boot_device[1]) << 4 |
> +            boot_device2nible(boot_device[0]) );
> +    rtc_set_memory(s, 0x38,
> +            boot_device2nible(boot_device[2]) << 4 | (fd_bootchk ? 0x0 : 0x1));
>  
>      /* floppy type */
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 6d8fe35..be0e06a 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> +                if (strlen(optarg) > 3) {
> +                    fprintf(stderr, "qemu: too many boot devices\n");
> +                    exit(1);
> +                }
> +                boot_device = strdup(optarg);
> +                if (!strchr(boot_device, 'a') &&