> On Jan 1, 2025, at 7:55 AM, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I upgraded my desktop from FreeBSD 13.3 to 14.2 few days ago and noticed
> there is a huge difference in the permissions on the kernel modules in
> /boot/kernel.
> 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--)
13.4 has the same permissions for kernel modules.
>
> Why it was changed? I tought modules does not need to be executable.
Yes, indeed. The permission of kernel modules was changed from 555 to KMODMODE
( NOBINMODE, 444 ). See https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42768 for more context.
>
> Kind regards
> Miroslav Lachman
>
>
Best regards,
Zhenlei
