On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 21:45:21 +0200 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM David Engraf <david.eng...@sysgo.com> wrote: > > > > Unpacking an external initrd may fail e.g. not enough memory. This leads > > to an incomplete rootfs because some files might be extracted already. > > Fixed by cleaning the rootfs so the kernel is not using an incomplete > > rootfs. > > This breaks my setup where I have U-boot provided more size of > initramfs than needed. This allows a bit of flexibility to increase or > decrease initramfs compressed image without taking care of bootloader. > The proper solution is to do this if we sure that we didn't get enough > memory, otherwise I can't consider the error fatal to clean up rootfs. OK, thanks. Maybe David can suggest a fix - I'll queue up a revert meanwhile. I don't really understand the failure. Why does an oversized initramfs cause unpack_to_rootfs() to fail?
