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an eye toward security involved in adding new exporters of information to these
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filesystems, so their use is discouraged.
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This is disabled by default as many programs (e.g. Xorg or debugging tools)
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require access to sysfs/debugfs.
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The kernel config option CONFIG_SECURITY_SYSFS_RESTRICT sets the default value
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of sysfs_restrict.
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