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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:19:15 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, masahiroy@kernel.org, nathan@kernel.org,
	nicolas@fjasle.eu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, didi.debian@cknow.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Install dtb files as 0644 in Makefile.dtbinst
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2024 at 12:41:54AM +0200, Dragan Simic wrote:
> +Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> +Cc: didi.debian@cknow.org
> 
> On 2024-06-09 21:32, Dragan Simic wrote:
> > The compiled dtb files aren't executable, so install them with 0644 as
> > their
> > permission mode, instead of defaulting to 0755 as the mode.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
> 
> Actually, some Linux distributions, including Debian, [1][2] already include
> fixes in their kernel package builds to change the file permissions to 0644.
> Thus, let's have this fix propagated into the stable kernels, to allow such
> distributions to remove their downstream fixes.
> 
> Fixes: aefd80307a05 ("kbuild: refactor Makefile.dtbinst more")
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/642
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/749


<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>