On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 08:07:48AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > From: Adrian Ratiu <adrian.ratiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > [ Upstream commit 41e8149c8892ed1962bd15350b3c3e6e90cba7f4 ] > > This adds a Kconfig option and boot param to allow removing > the FOLL_FORCE flag from /proc/pid/mem write calls because > it can be abused. And this is not a mount option why? > The traditional forcing behavior is kept as default because > it can break GDB and some other use cases. > > Previously we tried a more sophisticated approach allowing > distributions to fine-tune /proc/pid/mem behavior, however > that got NAK-ed by Linus [1], who prefers this simpler > approach with semantics also easier to understand for users.
