[Buildroot] [git commit] package/linux-headers: the latest headers are 5.8

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Wed Sep 9 10:51:15 UTC 2020


commit: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=0711cfc530ce57a079223ce566a274e35f9daa65
branch: https://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

In commit c2009e9f757fe759c74406f1025967b7b8e77f0a
("package/linux-headers: license files hashes only valid for latest
version"), we introduced BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_LATEST, which should only
be set for the most recent kernel headers versions.

Indeed, the COPYING file of Linux has changed before/after Linux 5.6,
causing its hash file to be different. Since linux-headers uses
linux/linux.hash as the hash file, and this hash file contains the
COPYING hash of Linux >= 5.6, we cannot use that hash for Linux
versions older than 5.6.

When newer versions of the headers than 5.4 were added, this
BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_LATEST was not moved as it should have been. We fix
this, which fixes a legal-info failure happening when Linux kernel
headers 5.4 are used:

>>> linux-headers 5.4.63 Patching
>>> linux-headers 5.4.63 Collecting legal info
ERROR: COPYING has wrong sha256 hash:
ERROR: expected: fb5a425bd3b3cd6071a3a9aff9909a859e7c1158d54d32e07658398cd67eb6a0
ERROR: got     : ee5808b032a67f587d3541099d46de34f5bec8cd5976114ba07f1299ee6001ff
ERROR: Incomplete download, or man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <peter at korsgaard.com>
---
 package/linux-headers/Config.in.host | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host b/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
index c1e169988b..0d92dfada7 100644
--- a/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/linux-headers/Config.in.host
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_4_19
 config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_5_4
 	bool "Linux 5.4.x kernel headers"
 	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_4
-	select BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_LATEST
 
 config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_5_8
 	bool "Linux 5.8.x kernel headers"
 	select BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HEADERS_AT_LEAST_5_8
+	select BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_LATEST
 
 config BR2_KERNEL_HEADERS_VERSION
 	bool "Manually specified Linux version"


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