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This kconfig option was introduced 18 months ago, with the historical default of always allowing forcing memory permission overrides in order to not change any existing behavior. But it was documented as "for now", and this is a gentle nudge to people that you probably _should_ be using PROC_MEM_FORCE_PTRACE. I've had that in my local kernel config since the option was introduced. Anybody who just does "make oldconfig" will pick up their old configuration with no change, so this is still meant to not change any existing system behavior, but at least gently prod people into trying it. I'd love to get rid of FOLL_FORCE entirely (see commit 8ee74a91 "proc: try to remove use of FOLL_FORCE entirely" from roughly a decade ago), but sadly that is likely not a realistic option (see commit f511c0b1 "Yes, people use FOLL_FORCE ;)" three weeks later). But at least let's make it more obvious that you have the choice to limit it and force people to at least be a bit more conscious about their use of FOLL_FORCE, since judging from a recent discussion people weren't even aware of this one. Reminded-by:Vova Tokarev <vladimirelitokarev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>