nvme_security_send(2)

✨ NAME ✨

nvme_security_send — the Security Send command, bestie 💌

sooo this is a page from the libnvme API manual, and it's about one (1) little function that sends your security protocol data over to the controller. let's get into it 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int nvme_security_send (struct nvme_security_send_args *args );

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💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• args — it's a struct nvme_security_send argument structure, and yes she's the whole point of this function 🫶

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so picture this: the Security Send command ✨ transfers security protocol data to the controller. that's the whole vibe.

the data structure that gets transferred to the controller as part of this command contains security protocol specific commands that the controller is supposed to perform. it's giving "here's your to-do list, do it" 💅

and btw that same transferred data structure may also contain data or parameters associated with the security protocol commands. so there might be extra stuff riding along with the commands themselves, lowkey a little bundle 📦

real talk though: the security data is protocol specific and is not defined by the NVMe specification. so no, this manpage cannot tell you what's inside it — that's between you and your protocol. iykyk 🧚

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

she returns the nvme command status if a response was received — check enum nvme_status_field for that 🫡

otherwise? she returns -1 with errno set. classic. 💀

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and that's the page, periodt 💜

this was nvme_security_send(2) from the libnvme API manual, dated July 2026 — love that for us, mwah 🎀✨💖