diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/kernel-apply-patch.sh b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/kernel-apply-patch.sh
index 0553db0c3f..cd98cb61ee 100755
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/kernel-apply-patch.sh
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/kernel-apply-patch.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ done
 # We can only create the actual commit in the actual source directory, not under the SDK.
 # So create a format-patch, and apply to the actual source.
 git add sys-kernel/coreos-*
-git commit -a -m "sys-kernel/coreos-sources: Upgrade Linux ${versionOld} to ${VERSION_NEW}"
+git commit -a -m "sys-kernel: Upgrade Linux ${versionOld} to ${VERSION_NEW}"
 git format-patch -1 --stdout HEAD > "${branch}".patch
 popd || exit