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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index 63663039acb7..412314eebda6 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -391,7 +391,8 @@ kptr_restrict: This toggle indicates whether restrictions are placed on exposing kernel addresses via /proc and other interfaces. -When kptr_restrict is set to (0), the default, there are no restrictions. +When kptr_restrict is set to 0 (the default) the address is hashed before +printing. (This is the equivalent to %p.) When kptr_restrict is set to (1), kernel pointers printed using the %pK format specifier will be replaced with 0's unless the user has CAP_SYSLOG |