Kernel 4.14: SQUASHFS error: xz decompression failed, data probably corrupt

Pintu Agarwal pintu.ping at gmail.com
Mon Jun 14 22:12:28 PDT 2021


On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 at 03:53, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 6/14/2021 3:39 AM, Pintu Agarwal wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > With Kernel 4.14 we are getting squashfs error during bootup resulting
> > in kernel panic.
> > The details are below:
> > Device: ARM-32 board with Cortex-A7 (Single Core)
> > Storage: NAND Flash 512MiB
> > Kernel Version: 4.14.170 (maybe with some Linaro updates)
> > File system: Simple busybox with systemd (without Android)
> > File system type: UBIFS + SQUASHFS
> > UBI Volumes supported: rootfs (ro), others (rw)
> > -------------------
> >
> > When we try to flash the UBI images and then try to boot the device,
> > we observe the below errors:
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> Someone in The OpenWrt community seems to have run into this problem,
> possibly on the exact same QCOM SoC than you and came up with the following:
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> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/patch-squashfs-data-probably-corrupt/70480
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Thanks!
Yes I have already seen this and even one more.
https://www.programmersought.com/article/31513579159/

But I think these changes are not yet in the mainline right ?

So, I wanted to know which are the exact patches which are already
accepted in mainline ?
Or, is it already mainlined ?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/fs/squashfs?h=next-20210611
>From here, I see that we are only till this:
==> 2018-08-02: Squashfs: Compute expected length from inode size
rather than block length



Thanks,
Pintu



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