__audit_free(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🌸 __audit_free — Kernel API Manual (9) 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the kernel API manual page for __audit_free 💅 this one's short and sweet ngl, but it's literally doing the cleanup work so you don't have to 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

__audit_free — free a per-task audit context 🎀

like, it's the friend who takes out the trash after the party. iconic behavior honestly.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void __audit_free (struct task_struct *tsk );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. returns void, takes one pointer, no cap 💀

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • tsk — the task whose audit context block you're freeing 🌸 literally the struct task_struct * for the task whose audit context block gets freed. that's the whole assignment bestie.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓: this gets called from copy_process, do_exit, and the io_uring code.

that's it. that's the description. she's lowkey mysterious and she's keeping it that way ✨ main character energy fr fr 👑

ngl the original page is this concise, so i'm not gonna invent lore that isn't there. respect the source, bestie 🫶

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

you want the whole friend group? because the whole friend group is here 😭💖 and yes, they all live in the kernel file ./kernel/auditsc.c:

that's twenty-eight whole cross-references, we ate and left absolutely no crumbs 🍽️✨ iykyk

<a href>okay that's the page!!</a> this little beauty ships out of ./kernel, dated October 2026, and it answers to the name __audit_free(9) 🦋 mwah, go free some audit contexts responsibly bestie 💜🎀

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