Make sure the global buffers for ipodpatcher and sansapatcher get allocated and freed only once. Fixes segfaults when the bootloader install class was instanciated multiple times.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@20835 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657

rbutil/ipodpatcher/ipodpatcher.c

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 
 int ipod_verbose = 0;
 
-unsigned char* ipod_sectorbuf;
+unsigned char* ipod_sectorbuf = NULL;
 
 /* The following string appears at the start of the firmware partition */
 static const char *apple_stop_sign = "{{~~  /-----\\   "\

rbutil/rbutilqt/base/bootloaderinstallipod.cpp

@@ -30,15 +30,21 @@ BootloaderInstallIpod::BootloaderInstallIpod(QObject *parent)
 {
     (void)parent;
     // initialize sector buffer. ipod_sectorbuf is defined in ipodpatcher.
-    ipod_sectorbuf = NULL;
+    // The buffer itself is only present once, so make sure to not allocate
-    ipod_alloc_buffer(&ipod_sectorbuf, BUFFER_SIZE);
+    // it if it was already allocated. The application needs to take care
+    // no concurrent (i.e. multiple objects of this class running) requests
+    // are done.
+    if(ipod_sectorbuf == NULL)
+        ipod_alloc_buffer(&ipod_sectorbuf, BUFFER_SIZE);
 }
 
 
 BootloaderInstallIpod::~BootloaderInstallIpod()
 {
-    if(ipod_sectorbuf)
+    if(ipod_sectorbuf) {
         free(ipod_sectorbuf);
+        ipod_sectorbuf = NULL;
+    }
 }
 
 

rbutil/rbutilqt/base/bootloaderinstallsansa.cpp

@@ -30,15 +30,21 @@ BootloaderInstallSansa::BootloaderInstallSansa(QObject *parent)
     (void)parent;
     // initialize sector buffer. sansa_sectorbuf is instantiated by
     // sansapatcher.
-    sansa_sectorbuf = NULL;
+    // The buffer itself is only present once, so make sure to not allocate
-    sansa_alloc_buffer(&sansa_sectorbuf, BUFFER_SIZE);
+    // it if it was already allocated. The application needs to take care
+    // no concurrent (i.e. multiple objects of this class running) requests
+    // are done.
+    if(sansa_sectorbuf == NULL)
+        sansa_alloc_buffer(&sansa_sectorbuf, BUFFER_SIZE);
 }
 
 
 BootloaderInstallSansa::~BootloaderInstallSansa()
 {
-    if(sansa_sectorbuf)
+    if(sansa_sectorbuf) {
         free(sansa_sectorbuf);
+        sansa_sectorbuf = NULL;
+    }
 }
 
 

rbutil/sansapatcher/sansapatcher.c

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ int sansa_verbose = 0;
    and initialise it with sansa_alloc_buf() in main().
 */
 
-unsigned char* sansa_sectorbuf;
+unsigned char* sansa_sectorbuf = NULL;
 
 static off_t filesize(int fd) {
     struct stat buf;