From patchwork Tue Mar 10 14:07:46 2026 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "A. Sverdlin" X-Patchwork-Id: 82988 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCB6EA8550 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-65-227.siemens.flowmailer.net (mta-65-227.siemens.flowmailer.net [185.136.65.227]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.msgproc01-g2.40931.1773151698222184109 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:08:18 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com header.s=fm1 header.b=IMN3F1az; spf=pass (domain: rts-flowmailer.siemens.com, ip: 185.136.65.227, mailfrom: fm-456497-20260310140815bb7097012b000207c2-gybibi@rts-flowmailer.siemens.com) Received: by mta-65-227.siemens.flowmailer.net with ESMTPSA id 20260310140815bb7097012b000207c2 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:08:15 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; s=fm1; d=siemens.com; i=alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com; h=Date:From:Subject:To:Message-ID:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Cc; bh=I5L9nhkAJmXu1cQcwLCPyuAcSzsC0GUpnN4+jgkMQqA=; b=IMN3F1azKBp4w8Kh4vmvlJrweFzKgUsFHgtRa8gqJynQar3bGGeXcNHTyYE16xkNd/Dzfa bkGGW/+BW5fQiE9OAL//f0ytQrQlao0mpAu/jtfn7nkdvVKUVyujkWbJcJw5NSIjXhp+4RHo 1B2I62/U7+uIu2tb/lbcgi7c/VWd8WBuvY/ErT6bItN216p/dETLYcjqPAFIU/fJkBbPc5R8 KY1rtJ/jExim8CKNuQyucDNAX6Y/eKyxhoYMSkAKxWg+HRJG7gcxQMHImZ7AB4JoEgcq/Ozl /CDqlOLUcjCRNyX17UGJZEcTSAZTbZZ8IIXqha1AeMCLBGaMY4DEGFDg==; From: "A. Sverdlin" To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Cc: Alexander Sverdlin , Ross Burton , Richard Purdie , Bruce Ashfield Subject: [PATCH] linux: cve-exclusions: Add --always to git-describe Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:07:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20260310140753.2618851-1-alexander.sverdlin@siemens.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Flowmailer-Platform: Siemens Feedback-ID: 519:519-456497:519-21489:flowmailer List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from 45-33-107-173.ip.linodeusercontent.com [45.33.107.173] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:08:28 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/232787 From: Alexander Sverdlin Otherwise https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git cannot be used: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '('git', 'describe', '--tags', 'HEAD')' returned non-zero exit status 128. Original error from git: fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. The change will at least produce an abbreviated SHA1 hash as {data_version}. Fixes: 5e66e2b79fae ("linux/generate-cve-exclusions: show the name and version of the data source") Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin --- meta/recipes-kernel/linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py index dfc16663a5..5139b11055 100755 --- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py +++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/generate-cve-exclusions.py @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ def main(argp=None): version = args.version base_version = Version(f"{version.major}.{version.minor}") - data_version = subprocess.check_output(("git", "describe", "--tags", "HEAD"), cwd=datadir, text=True) + data_version = subprocess.check_output(("git", "describe", "--tags", "--always", "HEAD"), cwd=datadir, text=True) print(f""" # Auto-generated CVE metadata, DO NOT EDIT BY HAND.