The LICENSE directory has recently changed structure and this makes spdxcheck fails as per below: FAIL: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found" Traceback (most recent call last): File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 240, in <module> spdx = read_spdxdata(repo) File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 41, in read_spdxdata for el in lictree[d].traverse(): [...] KeyError: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found" Fix the script to restore the correctness on checkpatch License checking. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jeremy Cline <jcline@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@xxxxxxx> --- scripts/spdxcheck.py | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py index 4fe392e507fb..6374e078a5f2 100755 --- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py +++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ class SPDXdata(object): def read_spdxdata(repo): # The subdirectories of LICENSES in the kernel source - license_dirs = [ "preferred", "other", "exceptions" ] + # Note: exceptions needs to be parsed as last directory. + license_dirs = [ "preferred", "dual", "deprecated", "exceptions" ] lictree = repo.head.commit.tree['LICENSES'] spdx = SPDXdata() @@ -58,13 +59,13 @@ def read_spdxdata(repo): elif l.startswith('SPDX-Licenses:'): for lic in l.split(':')[1].upper().strip().replace(' ', '').replace('\t', '').split(','): if not lic in spdx.licenses: - raise SPDXException(None, 'Exception %s missing license %s' %(ex, lic)) + raise SPDXException(None, 'Exception %s missing license %s' %(exception, lic)) spdx.exceptions[exception].append(lic) elif l.startswith("License-Text:"): if exception: if not len(spdx.exceptions[exception]): - raise SPDXException(el, 'Exception %s is missing SPDX-Licenses' %excid) + raise SPDXException(el, 'Exception %s is missing SPDX-Licenses' %exception) spdx.exception_files += 1 else: spdx.license_files += 1 -- 2.21.0