[Buildroot] [PATCH] linux: don't check hashes for user-supplied patches

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Feb 16 18:34:26 UTC 2019


We have virtually no way to know the hashes for user-supplied patches,
so we should just ignore them.

Reported-by: Simon van der Veldt <simon.vanderveldt at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
Cc: Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>

---
Peter: this is a candidate for backporting to 2018.11.x and 2018.02.x
---
 linux/linux.mk | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/linux/linux.mk b/linux/linux.mk
index 8c21bad067..2b5d096e14 100644
--- a/linux/linux.mk
+++ b/linux/linux.mk
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ endif
 
 LINUX_PATCHES = $(call qstrip,$(BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_PATCH))
 
+# We have no way to know the hashes for user-supplied patches.
+BR_NO_CHECK_HASH_FOR += $(notdir $(LINUX_PATCHES))
+
 # We rely on the generic package infrastructure to download and apply
 # remote patches (downloaded from ftp, http or https). For local
 # patches, we can't rely on that infrastructure, because there might
-- 
2.14.1



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