The patch titled
Make initramfs printk a warning on incorrect cpio type
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Make initramfs printk a warning on incorrect cpio type
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It turns out that the "-c" option of cpio is highly unportable even between
distros let alone unix variants, and may actually make the wrong type of
cpio archive. I just wasted quite some time on this, and the kernel can
detect this and warn about it (it's __init memory so it gets thrown away
and thus there is no runtime overhead)
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
init/initramfs.c | 4 ++++
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff -puN init/initramfs.c~make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type init/initramfs.c
--- a/init/initramfs.c~make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type
+++ a/init/initramfs.c
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ static int __init do_collect(void)
static int __init do_header(void)
{
+ if (memcmp(collected, "070707", 6)==0) {
+ error("incorrect cpio method used: use -H newc option");
+ return 1;
+ }
if (memcmp(collected, "070701", 6)) {
error("no cpio magic");
return 1;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
binfmt_elf-randomize-pie-binaries.patch
lockdep-spin_lock_irqsave_nested.patch
lockdep-spin_lock_irqsave_nested-fix.patch
lockdep-spin_lock_irqsave_nested-fix-2.patch
make-initramfs-printk-a-warning-on-incorrect-cpio-type.patch
remove-the-old-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch
new-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch
round_jiffies-infrastructure.patch
round_jiffies-infrastructure-fix.patch
user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-patch-ata-subsystem.patch
user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-code-jbd.patch
user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-code-networking.patch
user-of-the-jiffies-rounding-patch-slab.patch
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