/* This illustrates operations which are only possible in ring 0. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7415515/how-to-access-the-control-registers-cr0-cr2-cr3-from-a-program-getting-segmenta/7419306#7419306 It only works for x86_64. Then try to run this on userland and see the process be killed: /ring0.out */ #include #include #include "ring0.h" static int myinit(void) { #if defined(__x86_64__) || defined(__i386__) Ring0Regs ring0_regs; ring0_get_control_regs(&ring0_regs); pr_info("cr0 = 0x%8.8llX\n", (unsigned long long)ring0_regs.cr0); pr_info("cr2 = 0x%8.8llX\n", (unsigned long long)ring0_regs.cr2); pr_info("cr3 = 0x%8.8llX\n", (unsigned long long)ring0_regs.cr3); #endif return 0; } static void myexit(void) {} module_init(myinit) module_exit(myexit) MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");