linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kheaders: explicitly define file modes for archived headers

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Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 23:30:09 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Matthias Männich <maennich@...gle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com, gprocida@...gle.com, 
	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, 
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kheaders: explicitly define file modes for archived headers

On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM Matthias Männich <maennich@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> From: Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>
>
> Build environments might be running with different umask settings
> resulting in indeterministic file modes for the files contained in
> kheaders.tar.xz. The file itself is served with 444, i.e. world
> readable. Archive the files explicitly with 744,a+X to improve
> reproducibility across build environments.
>
> --mode=0444 is not suitable as directories need to be executable. Also,
> 444 makes it hard to delete all the readonly files after extraction.
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Maennich <maennich@...gle.com>
> ---

Applied to linux-kbuild.
Thanks!



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada