diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
index 606df285ef..3a058cd286 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-kernel/kernel-selftest/kernel-selftest.bb
@@ -2,10 +2,13 @@ SUMMARY = "Kernel selftest for Linux"
 DESCRIPTION = "Kernel selftest for Linux"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-only"
 
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${UNPACKDIR}/COPYING;md5=bbea815ee2795b2f4230826c0c6b8814"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=bbea815ee2795b2f4230826c0c6b8814"
 
 DEPENDS = "rsync-native llvm-native"
 
+S = "${WORKDIR}/sources"
+UNPACKDIR = "${S}"
+
 # for musl libc
 SRC_URI:append:libc-musl = "\
                       file://userfaultfd.patch \
@@ -108,10 +111,6 @@ do_install() {
     chown root:root  -R ${D}/usr/kernel-selftest
 }
 
-do_configure() {
-    install -D -m 0644 ${UNPACKDIR}/COPYING ${S}/COPYING
-}
-
 do_patch[prefuncs] += "copy_kselftest_source_from_kernel remove_unrelated"
 python copy_kselftest_source_from_kernel() {
     sources = (d.getVar("KERNEL_SELFTEST_SRC") or "").split()