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-rw-r--r--lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py b/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py
index c1950e481..25d5db0e5 100644
--- a/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py
+++ b/lib/bb/fetch2/gitsm.py
@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ class GitSM(Git):
# This has to be a file reference
proto = "file"
url = "gitsm://" + uris[module]
+ if "{}{}".format(ud.host, ud.path) in url:
+ raise bb.fetch2.FetchError("Submodule refers to the parent repository. This will cause deadlock situation in current version of Bitbake." \
+ "Consider using git fetcher instead.")
url += ';protocol=%s' % proto
url += ";name=%s" % module