diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/common.sh b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/common.sh
index 964b3290c5..c4d2b821af 100644
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/common.sh
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/common.sh
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ function generate_patches() {
   CATEGORY_NAME=$1
   PKGNAME_SIMPLE=$2
   PKGNAME_DESC=$3
+  shift 3
+  local dir
 
   pushd "${SDK_OUTER_SRCDIR}/third_party/coreos-overlay" >/dev/null || exit
 
@@ -48,6 +50,9 @@ function generate_patches() {
   # 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 ${CATEGORY_NAME}/${PKGNAME_SIMPLE}
+  for dir in "$@"; do
+      git add "${dir}"
+  done
   git commit -a -m "${CATEGORY_NAME}: Upgrade ${PKGNAME_DESC} ${VERSION_OLD} to ${VERSION_NEW}"
 
   # Create a patch for the main ebuilds.
diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/rust-apply-patch.sh b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/rust-apply-patch.sh
index a4855b4ae3..63a3907904 100755
--- a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/rust-apply-patch.sh
+++ b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/.github/workflows/rust-apply-patch.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if [[ "${VERSION_NEW}" = "${VERSION_OLD}" ]]; then
 fi
 
 # replace rust version in profiles/, e.g. package.accept_keywords.
-find profiles -name 'package.*' | xargs sed -i "s/=dev-lang\/rust-${VERSION_OLD}/=dev-lang\/rust-${VERSION_NEW}/"
+find profiles -name 'package.*' | xargs sed -i "s/=dev-lang\/rust-\S\+/=dev-lang\/rust-${VERSION_NEW}/"
 
 pushd "dev-lang/rust" >/dev/null || exit
 git mv $(ls -1 rust-${VERSION_OLD}.ebuild) "rust-${VERSION_NEW}.ebuild"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ popd >/dev/null || exit
 
 popd >/dev/null || exit
 
-generate_patches dev-lang rust dev-lang/rust
+generate_patches dev-lang rust dev-lang/rust profiles
 
 apply_patches