__aa_profile_list_release(9)

💅 __aa_profile_list_release(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the <pink>__aa_profile_list_release</pink> page from the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? it's a short one but it ate. let's get into it 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

__aa_profile_list_release — remove all profiles on the list and put refs

like, every profile on that list? gone. refs? put. periodt. 💀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void __aa_profile_list_release (struct list_head *head );

that's it. that's the whole signature. no cap. ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• head — list of profiles. and listen, it is NOT NULL. do not come in here with a NULL, bestie, i'm begging 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the vibe here is: this thing removes all the profiles on the list and puts their refs. all of them. the whole list. iconic behavior honestly 👑

Requires: the namespace lock be held.

⚠️ like, genuinely — hold that namespace lock. this is a requirement, not a suggestion, and i will be checking. 🔥

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/policy.c, plus the whole friend group right here — they're all linked and they all matter, so here's every single one, no skips, no cuts, fr fr:

• aa_pdb_free_kref(9)
• __add_profile(9)
• __list_remove_profile(9)
• __remove_profile(9)
• aa_free_data(9)
• aa_free_profile(9)
• aa_alloc_profile(9)
• __strn_find_child(9)
• __find_child(9)
• aa_find_child(9)
• __lookup_parent(9)
• __create_missing_ancestors(9)
• __lookupn_profile(9)
• aa_lookupn_profile(9)
• __aa_new_learning_profile(9)
• replacement_allowed(9)
• audit_policy(9)
• aa_policy_view_capable(9)
• aa_may_manage_policy(9)
• __replace_profile(9)
• __lookup_replace(9)
• aa_replace_profiles(9)
• aa_remove_profiles(9)

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and that's the page!! 🧚 mwah 💋

this little masterpiece lives in ./security/apparmor, dated October 2026, in the Kernel API Manual — __aa_profile_list_release(9), slay, bye 💖🌈