The Linux team plan to removed references to racially-charged jargon from
their code for more neutral and inclusive language.
So replace use of "whitelist" with "allowlist" in cve-check.
First, we add CVE_CHECK_ALLOWLIST and it is considered patched as well as
CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST.
We plan to replace about other word later and eventualy, replace all
"whitelist" to "allowlist".
Signed-off-by: Yuichi Ito <redacted>
---
meta/classes/cve-check.bbclass | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/meta/classes/cve-check.bbclass b/meta/classes/cve-check.bbclass
index 112ee3379d..5e3441a783 100644
--- a/meta/classes/cve-check.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/cve-check.bbclass
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ CVE_CHECK_PN_WHITELIST ?= ""
# CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST = 'CVE-2014-2524 CVE-2018-1234'
#
CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST ?= ""
+CVE_CHECK_ALLOWLIST ?= ""
# Layers to be excluded
CVE_CHECK_LAYER_EXCLUDELIST ??= ""
@@ -238,7 +239,7 @@ def check_cves(d, patched_cves):
old_cve_whitelist = d.getVar("CVE_CHECK_CVE_WHITELIST")
if old_cve_whitelist:
bb.warn("CVE_CHECK_CVE_WHITELIST is deprecated, please use CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST.")
- cve_whitelist = d.getVar("CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST").split()
+ cve_whitelist = d.getVar("CVE_CHECK_ALLOWLIST").split() + d.getVar("CVE_CHECK_WHITELIST").split()
import sqlite3
db_file = d.expand("file:${CVE_CHECK_DB_FILE}?mode=ro")--
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