__add_profile(9)

💖 __add_profile — the Kernel API glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, this one lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel land, we love her) and honestly? she's giving "small function, big responsibilities" energy. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

__add_profile — adds a profile to the list and to the label tree 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void __add_profile (struct list_head *list , struct aa_profile *profile );

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

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• list — the list you're adding it to. it is NOT NULL, and like... we mean it, bestie. don't come in here with a null pointer 🙈
• profile — the profile itself. also NOT NULL. also non-negotiable. ✨

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🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

so what's actually happening: it refcounts the profile, which is the polite way of saying it takes a reference on it. that means whoever comes along later has to clean up after themselves with __list_remove_profile. put it back. balance the books. be a good citizen. 😌

⚠️ Requires: the namespace lock must be held — or the list must not be shared. this is not a vibe suggestion, it's a rule. read it, screenshot it, remember it. 🔥

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

y'all, the friend group here is huge. family reunion time:

• kernel file ./security/apparmor/policy.c 👑
• aa_pdb_free_kref(9)
• __list_remove_profile(9)
• __remove_profile(9)
• __aa_profile_list_release(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)

like I said. big friend group. go say hi. 💖

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anyway bestie that's the whole page 🧚 this icon came from the ./security/apparmor corner of the kernel and it was dated October 2026 — so mark your calendar and stan responsibly. mwah! 💋