[OE-core][wrynose 18/38] improve_kernel_cve_report: fix backported-patch check
From: Yoann Congal <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-09 07:30:12
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
From: Hiago De Franco <redacted>
The guard added in 80ff4903ea tests "detail" in cve_data, but cve_data is
keyed by CVE id, so it asks whether a CVE literally named "detail" was
scanned. That is never true, the condition short-circuits, and the guard
never runs: a CVE_STATUS[CVE-...] = "backported-patch" set for a vendor
cherry-picked patch is silently overwritten to Unpatched by the CNA.
Use .get() on the entry instead. Guard the fallthrough warning the same
way, it makes the same assumption.
Tested against a qemuarm64 linux-yocto report (6.6.142+git, 16221 entries,
4313 of them with no detail). Current master and this version produce
identical output, 18773 entries with no difference. Adding
CVE_STATUS[CVE-2024-42067] = "backported-patch" to that report then makes
the only difference between them: master overwrites it to Unpatched, this
version keeps it Patched. The pre-80ff4903ea code aborts on the same
report with "KeyError: 'detail'".
(cherry picked from commit f5da16b0d3c8f889dab061ba1d8808aba95d4c67)
AI-Generated: Uses Claude (claude-opus-5)
Fixes: 80ff4903ea1b ("improve_kernel_cve_report: validate that cve details field exists")
Signed-off-by: Hiago De Franco <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <redacted>
---
scripts/contrib/improve_kernel_cve_report.py | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/contrib/improve_kernel_cve_report.py b/scripts/contrib/improve_kernel_cve_report.py
index b386c9383a7..f0e471be459 100755
--- a/scripts/contrib/improve_kernel_cve_report.py
+++ b/scripts/contrib/improve_kernel_cve_report.py@@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ def cve_update(cve_data, cve, entry): if entry['status'] == "Unpatched" and cve_data[cve]['status'] == "Patched": # Backported-patch (e.g. vendor kernel repo with cherry-picked CVE patch) # has priority over unpatch from CNA - if "detail" in cve_data and cve_data[cve]['detail'] == "backported-patch": + if cve_data[cve].get('detail') == "backported-patch": return logging.warning("CVE entry %s update from Patched to Unpatched from the scan result", cve) cve_data[cve] = copy_data(cve_data[cve], entry)
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ def cve_update(cve_data, cve, entry): logging.debug("CVE entry %s updated from Unpatched to Ignored", cve) return logging.warning("Unhandled CVE entry update for %s %s from %s %s to %s", - cve, cve_data[cve]['status'], cve_data[cve]['detail'], entry['status'], entry['detail']) + cve, cve_data[cve]['status'], cve_data[cve].get('detail'), entry['status'], entry['detail']) def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(