Contrary to the buffer-format.rst documentation, initramfs cpio extraction does not support "crc" archives, which carry "070702" header magic. Make it a little clearer that "newc" (magic="070701") is the only supported cpio format, by extending the POSIX.1 ASCII (magic="070707") specific error message to also cover "crc" magic. Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@xxxxxxx> --- init/initramfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c index f01590cefa2d..19b1c70446fc 100644 --- a/init/initramfs.c +++ b/init/initramfs.c @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ static int __init do_collect(void) static int __init do_header(void) { if (memcmp(collected, "070701", 6)) { - if (memcmp(collected, "070707", 6) == 0) + if (memcmp(collected, "0707", 4) == 0) error("incorrect cpio method used: use -H newc option"); else error("no cpio magic"); -- 2.26.2