__label_remove(9)

🦋 __label_remove(9) — Kernel API Manual bestie 🦋

okay so this is __label_remove(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it's giving “tiny but locked-down” energy 💅. It removes a label from the label set, and there is a very real lock requirement you cannot ghost. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

__label_remove — remove @label from the label set. Iconic, direct, no filler 🎀.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool __label_remove (struct aa_label *label , struct aa_label *new );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• label — label to remove. This is the one getting removed from the label set, periodt.
• new — label to redirect to. The redirect target, iykyk 💫.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Requires: labels_set(label)->lock write_lock.

⚠️ bestie, this is the lock requirement — like, do not skip it. It's not a vibe, it's a requirement 💀.

👑 RETURN 👑

Returns true if the label was in the tree and removed. That's the exact return condition, no extra lore ✨.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/label.c, plus the whole function friend group:

• ns_cmp(9)
• profile_cmp(9)
• vec_cmp(9)
• aa_vec_unique(9)
• aa_label_alloc(9)
• label_cmp(9)
• __aa_label_next_not_in_set(9)
• aa_label_is_subset(9)
• aa_label_is_unconfined_subset(9)
• __label_replace(9)
• __label_insert(9)
• __vec_find(9)
• __label_find(9)
• aa_label_remove(9)
• aa_label_replace(9)
• vec_find(9)
• aa_label_insert(9)
• aa_label_next_in_merge(9)
• label_merge_cmp(9)
• label_merge_insert(9)
• labelset_of_merge(9)
• __label_find_merge(9)
• aa_label_find_merge(9)
• aa_label_merge(9)
• label_compound_match(9)
• label_components_match(9)
• aa_label_match(9)
• aa_update_label_name(9)
• aa_profile_snxprint(9)
• aa_label_snxprint(9)
• aa_label_asxprint(9)
• aa_label_acntsxprint(9)
• aa_label_strn_parse(9)
• aa_labelset_destroy(9)
• __label_update(9)
• __labelset_update(9)
• __aa_labelset_update_subtree(9)

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xoxo, your kernel bestie 💋 — source/version: ./security/apparmor; date: October 2026; page: __label_remove(9).