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authorH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-12 14:24:04 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>2009-01-12 14:34:31 -0800
commit23a22d57a8962479ca630c9542e62d6f86fdf927 (patch)
tree5839f8f3125a7ddf90eb6c679908206ba464b7af /init/initramfs.c
parent736f93236ce786d1bcf09ad4dcb38a360d35ea1b (diff)
bzip2/lzma: comprehensible error messages for missing decompressor
Instead of failing to identify a compressed image with a decompressor that we don't have compiled in, identify it and fail with a comprehensible panic message. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/initramfs.c')
-rw-r--r--init/initramfs.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 76f4a0125338..9a7290ec8187 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ static char * __init unpack_to_rootfs(char *buf, unsigned len, int check_only)
{
int written;
decompress_fn decompress;
+ const char *compress_name;
+ static __initdata char msg_buf[64];
dry_run = check_only;
header_buf = kmalloc(110, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -449,10 +451,18 @@ static char * __init unpack_to_rootfs(char *buf, unsigned len, int check_only)
continue;
}
this_header = 0;
- decompress = decompress_method(buf, len, NULL);
+ decompress = decompress_method(buf, len, &compress_name);
if (decompress)
decompress(buf, len, NULL, flush_buffer, NULL,
&my_inptr, error);
+ else if (compress_name) {
+ if (!message) {
+ snprintf(msg_buf, sizeof msg_buf,
+ "compression method %s not configured",
+ compress_name);
+ message = msg_buf;
+ }
+ }
if (state != Reset)
error("junk in compressed archive");
this_header = saved_offset + my_inptr;