Re: R: Linux kernel source archive vulnerable

[David Wagner]

Willy Tarreau  wrote:
>The initial reason is that Linus now uses the "git-tar-tree" command
>which creates the full tar archive from the tree. It does not use tar,
>it know how to produce the tar format itself. The command has to set
>permissions on the files, and by default, it sets full permissions to
>the files.

Ahh, thanks for the explanation.  That's helpful.

So it sounds like git-tar-tree has a bug; its default isn't setting
meaningful permissions on the files that it puts into the tar archive.
I hope the maintainers of git-tar-tree will consider fixing this bug.
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