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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 06:57:11 +0200
From: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Install dtb files as 0644 in Makefile.dtbinst
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Hello Greg K-H,

On 2024-06-10 06:19, Greg KH wrote:
> 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>

Thanks for your response.  I'll send the v2 with, hopefully, all patch
submission issues addressed.