bzip2/lzma: comprehensible error messages for missing decompressor

Instead of failing to identify a compressed image with a decompressor
that we don't have compiled in, identify it and fail with a
comprehensible panic message.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 76f4a0125338..9a7290ec8187 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@ static char * __init unpack_to_rootfs(char *buf, unsigned len, int check_only)
 {
         int written;
         decompress_fn decompress;
+        const char *compress_name;
+        static __initdata char msg_buf[64];
 
         dry_run = check_only;
         header_buf = kmalloc(110, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -449,10 +451,18 @@ static char * __init unpack_to_rootfs(char *buf, unsigned len, int check_only)
                         continue;
                 }
                 this_header = 0;
-                decompress = decompress_method(buf, len, NULL);
+                decompress = decompress_method(buf, len, &compress_name);
                 if (decompress)
                         decompress(buf, len, NULL, flush_buffer, NULL,
                                    &my_inptr, error);
+                else if (compress_name) {
+                        if (!message) {
+                                snprintf(msg_buf, sizeof msg_buf,
+                                         "compression method %s not configured",
+                                         compress_name);
+                                message = msg_buf;
+                        }
+                }
                 if (state != Reset)
                         error("junk in compressed archive");
                 this_header = saved_offset + my_inptr;