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| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index 85a87d2ac0c..092f019e033 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug" config STRICT_DEVMEM bool "Filter access to /dev/mem" help - If this option is left on, you allow userspace (root) access to all + If this option is disabled, you allow userspace (root) access to all of memory, including kernel and userspace memory. Accidental access to this is obviously disastrous, but specific access can be used by people debugging the kernel. Note that with PAT support |