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devtool: prevent 'devtool modify -n' from corrupting kernel Git repos

Message ID 20260323232008.3456362-1-ejo@pengutronix.de
State New
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Series devtool: prevent 'devtool modify -n' from corrupting kernel Git repos | expand

Commit Message

Enrico Jörns March 23, 2026, 11:19 p.m. UTC
Running 'devtool modify -n' on a kernel recipe that inherits
'kernel-yocto' can unintentionally corrupt an existing Git repo or
worktree.

The work-shared optimization introduced in 3c3a9bae ("devtool/standard.py:
Update devtool modify to copy source from work-shared if its already
downloaded") is not skipped when '--no-extract' ('args.no_extract') is set.

As a result, for kernel builds where STAGING_KERNEL_DIR was already
populated when running 'devtool modify -n', the existing source tree is
overwritten (via oe.path.copyhardlinktree()) with the contents of
STAGING_KERNEL_DIR.

Fix by adding 'and not args.no_extract' to the kernel-yocto guard
condition.

Signed-off-by: Enrico Jörns <ejo@pengutronix.de>
---
 scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
index b706d9c7a1..42fb13872d 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/devtool/standard.py
@@ -801,7 +801,8 @@  def modify(args, config, basepath, workspace):
         commits = {}
         check_commits = False
 
-        if bb.data.inherits_class('kernel-yocto', rd):
+        if bb.data.inherits_class('kernel-yocto', rd) and not args.no_extract:
+
             # Current set kernel version
             kernelVersion = rd.getVar('LINUX_VERSION')
             srcdir = rd.getVar('STAGING_KERNEL_DIR')