1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_kernel.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_kernel.py
index c6e86bd2b9..7dac59fd03 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_kernel.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_kernel.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ class KernelRecipeHandler(RecipeHandler):
                     kpatchlevel = -1
                     ksublevel = -1
                     kextraversion = ''
-                    with open(makefile, 'r') as f:
+                    with open(makefile, 'r', errors='surrogateescape') as f:
                         for i, line in enumerate(f):
                             if i > 10:
                                 break