Re: Should kernel modules be executable?

> On Jan 2, 2025, at 5:05 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I also observed this. `freebsd-upgrade IDS` reported the issue and I manually fixed the *wrong* permissions.

> 
> DES
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