[OS-BUILD PATCH 0/0] Drop custom mode for System.map file

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From: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek on gitlab.com
Merge Request: https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/2819
NOTE: Truncated patchset due to missing public @redhat.com email
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Mode 0600 was introduced in [1], with the justification that
"You can just chmod 644 them later if you (unlikely) need them without root.".
The time where a different mode is needed has come ;)
I'm building initrd images as part of the mkosi project [2], and in general
mkosi is designed to be executed unprivileged, and currently this fails when
copying in the kernel module files, because System.map is not readable.

Mode 0600 is not useful for files that are packaged, anyone can trivially get
the file from the web, or even from the dnf cache, etc. The packaging
guidelines
[3] say:
"Inside of /usr [...] [files] MUST be universally readable."

A similar case came up recently with polkit rules [4]. Apparently RH security
folks found the change acceptable. Also, at least on Debian System.map is
0644.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kernel/c/d287769cc9dbdad68eb0123b149e8c
8edae4632f
[2] https://github.com/systemd/mkosi/pull/2040
[3] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-
guidelines/#_file_permissions
[4] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/153

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