Re: Should kernel modules be executable?

Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> writes:
> > Previously there were about 25 files with permission r-xr-xr-x and
> > 871 with other permissions (mainly -r--r--r--).
> > But on the FreeBSD 14.2 (upgraded by freebsd-update), there are 809
> > files with r-xr-xr-x permission and only 66 with other permissions
> > (63 with r--r--r--)
> Yes, indeed. The permission of kernel modules was changed from 555 to
> KMODMODE ( NOBINMODE, 444 ). See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42768
> for more context.

And yet the observed change is the opposite.

Looking at a 14.2 kernel tarball, the modules are not executable, but on
a 14.2 system updated from an earlier release using freebsd-update, they
are.

DES
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