__aa_transition_rlimits(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ __aa_transition_rlimits(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a little function from the kernel side of AppArmor, __aa_transition_rlimits, and honestly it's giving glow-up era 🦋 because what it does is literally apply new profile rlimits. That's the whole vibe. You're switching a task over to a new label and dragging its resource limits along with it. Slay 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

__aa_transition_rlimits — apply new profile rlimits ✨

like, the name is the plot bestie, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void __aa_transition_rlimits (struct aa_label *old_l , struct aa_label
*new_l );

yes the spacing is iconic and slightly chaotic, we love her for that 💖 (and don't touch it, that's literally how it's written 👑)

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • old_l — the old label on the task, and it is (NOT NULL) 🚨 like fr fr, don't come in here with a null, that's not the move
  • new_l — the new label with the rlimits to apply, also (NOT NULL) 😭 two non-null labels or the whole thing is a no from me
lowkey important: both of these say NOT NULL in the original and I'm putting it in bold because I want you to feel it 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file is ./security/apparmor/resource.c — that's home base bestie 🏠 and it hangs with these icons:

go read them, iykyk 📚✨

and that's the page!! October 2026 energy, straight out of ./security/apparmor 🍓 mwah, ily, go set some rlimits responsibly 💜🎀

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