__list_remove_profile(9)

🎀 __list_remove_profile(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat. This page is all about __list_remove_profile, and yes, we're keeping every detail. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

__list_remove_profile — remove a profile from the list it is on. periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void __list_remove_profile (struct aa_profile *profile );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• profile — the profile to remove. It is NOT NULL (like, actually not NULL, bestie — do not play with that). 🙈

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So this one removes a profile from the list it is on. warning though: generally, removal should be done with __replace_profile, because most profile removals are replacements to the unconfined profile. That's the lore. 👑

Also, it does the put profile list refcount thing. 🫶

Requires: namespace lock be held, or list not have been live. fr fr, that's the requirement.

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file: ./security/apparmor/policy.c — and here's the whole friend group, no cap:

• aa_pdb_free_kref(9)
• __add_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)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 source/version: ./security/apparmor · date: October 2026 · page: __list_remove_profile(9) ✨