diff --git a/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace b/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace
index 22c5c3c013..47853baa6b 100755
--- a/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace
+++ b/util/lint/lint-stable-003-whitespace
@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@
 # DESCR: Check for superfluous whitespace in the tree
 
 LC_ALL=C export LC_ALL
-grep -l "[[:space:]][[:space:]]*$" `git ls-files src util |egrep -v "(^3rdparty|^src/vendorcode/|^util/kconfig/|\<COPYING\>|\<LICENSE\>|\<README\>|_shipped$|\.patch|\.bin$)"` | \
+grep -l "[[:space:]][[:space:]]*$" `git ls-files src util |egrep -v "(^3rdparty|^src/vendorcode/|^util/kconfig/|^util/nvidia/cbootimage$|\<COPYING\>|\<LICENSE\>|\<README\>|_shipped$|\.patch|\.bin$)"` | \
 	sed -e "s,^.*$,File & has lines ending with whitespace.,"