[Bug binutils/31800] New: src-release.sh recursively changes permissions of everything in to 0777

[rostiprodev at gmail dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31800

            Bug ID: 31800
           Summary: src-release.sh recursively changes permissions of
                    everything in to 0777
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: rostiprodev at gmail dot com
  Target Milestone: ---

After running this script permissions of all files and directories (including
files of Git repo and the root directory of the project) are changed to 0777,
i.e. everything is open for everybody for any read-write operation. This is not
good, not secure and must never be done.

The src-release.sh script does it by the following line:

chmod -R og=u . || chmod og=u `find . -print`

Please remove this line. The src-release.sh works properly without that line
and doesn't change permissions of files or directories.

In case a particular file must have special permissions you can change those
permissions in the Git repository. Git always stores file permissions of all
BLOB (file) and TREE (directory) object in the appropriate TREE objects that
point to (have) them. For more information read:

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects#_tree_objects
[2] https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/01/31/git-add-remove-execute-permissions/

I found this issue in the "binutils-2_42-branch" Git branch but it exists in
master and in some older branches as well.

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