SquashFS supports sprase blocks in files - that is, if a given block is
composed only of zeros, it's not written to the output file to save
space and it's on-disk length field is set to zero to indicate that.
Previously the squashfs driver did not recognise that, and would attempt
to read and decompress a zero-sized block, which obviously failed.
The following command may be used to create a file for testing: