[OpenWrt-Devel] Squashfs breakage lottery with UBI WAS: [PATCH RFC 2/2] amp821xx: use newly added pad-squashfs for Meraki MR24

[Russell Senior]

> Fwiw, I took a little closer look at the squashfs code. I still don't
> quite understand it, but I sprinkled some printk()'s and got a better
> idea of what is happening.
> 
> With a root.squashfs of 6428672 bytes, we get the error in a call:

Actually, the 6428672 bytes was from a later trial. Sorry for the
confusion. I'm not sure what the real root.squashfs size was
anymore. Gah. I'll need to redo it.

> 
>   squashfs_read_data(sb=(ptrval),index=0,length=6427986,next_index=16777224,output=  (null))
> 
> it enters the loop at fs/squashfs/block.c:122 with b=0; bytes=-338; length=8; cur_index=0
> 
>     for (b = 0; bytes < length; b++, cur_index++) {
>         bh[b] = sb_getblk(sb, cur_index);
>         if (bh[b] == NULL)
>             goto block_release;
> 
> sb_getblk() must return NULL, because it goes to block_release and falls
> through to print the error message and exits with an error.


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russell at personaltelco.net

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