diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index fed82251ca77..e46f54140dc6 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: e4aa7ca5a2e6d44f07ceb87d9448113f5b48a334
+refs/heads/master: ab59d3b70f7a47987f80e153d828363faec643fe
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh b/trunk/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
index 41041e4923f7..3eea8f15131b 100644
--- a/trunk/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
+++ b/trunk/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh
@@ -292,7 +292,8 @@ if [ ! -z ${output_file} ]; then
 	if [ "${is_cpio_compressed}" = "compressed" ]; then
 		cat ${cpio_tfile} > ${output_file}
 	else
-		cat ${cpio_tfile} | ${compr}  - > ${output_file}
+		(cat ${cpio_tfile} | ${compr}  - > ${output_file}) \
+		|| (rm -f ${output_file} ; false)
 	fi
 	[ -z ${cpio_file} ] && rm ${cpio_tfile}
 fi