diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index cad6cd268102..15cc25e50486 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 32197c7ffb06b1319850f8fdfa1a49d32a63b79b
+refs/heads/master: eb8f844c0a41c4529a7d06b7801296eca9ae67aa
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/tags.sh b/trunk/scripts/tags.sh
index d52f7a01557c..1a0c44d7c4a7 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/tags.sh
+++ b/trunk/scripts/tags.sh
@@ -89,7 +89,13 @@ all_defconfigs()
 
 docscope()
 {
-	(echo \-k; echo \-q; all_sources) > cscope.files
+	# always use absolute paths for cscope, as recommended by cscope
+	# upstream
+	case "$tree" in
+		/*) ;;
+		*) tree=$PWD/$tree ;;
+	esac
+	(cd /; echo \-k; echo \-q; all_sources) > cscope.files
 	cscope -b -f cscope.out
 }