linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix permissions of modules.builtin.modinfo

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:15:40 +0800
From: Ethan Zuo <yuxuan.zuo@...look.com>
To: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
Cc: nsc@...nel.org, masahiroy@...nel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix permissions of modules.builtin.modinfo

Thank you for your reply, sir.

My apologies for the double mail; I realized I missed the CC list.

On 1/28/26 4:59 AM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Would it be better to do what the previous submission did and just
> remove the execute bit via 'chmod -x'? That seems to be slightly more
> common in the kernel (even though there are very few uses of 'chmod'
> throughout Makefile instances) and seems to get at the issue a little
> bit more. Not sure if the creation of these files respects umask, in
> case someone had a more restrictive one, but that might be contrived.
That looks more reasonable. I'll send out the v2 patch shortly.