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by bstx 5394 days ago
> What this means is that the kernel can no longer see if a user is writing to a read-only location, which is a major part of memory protection.

No, disabling WP in CR0 is only relevant for privileged code. Writes to write protected pages in user mode will still trap. It might mess up some in-kernel COW stuff though.