aa_create_aafs(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Okay bestie, meet aa_create_aafs(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this page is literally about the function that creates the apparmor security filesystem. That's the whole assignment. ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int aa_create_aafs (void );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• void — no arguments. Not a single one, bestie. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The dentries created here are released by aa_destroy_aafs. So like, that's the cleanup link-up: aa_destroy_aafs handles releasing them. No cap. 💅

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Error on failure. 😭 If it doesn't go off, you get an error — that's the return vibe.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c, plus the whole function bestie squad: mangle_name(9), __aafs_setup_d_inode(9), aafs_create(9), aafs_create_file(9), aafs_create_dir(9), aafs_remove(9), aa_simple_write_to_buffer(9), aa_get_data_from_compressed(9), query_data(9), query_label(9), aa_write_access(9), __next_ns(9), __first_profile(9), __next_profile(9), next_profile(9), p_start(9), p_next(9), p_stop(9), seq_show_profile(9), entry_create_file(9), entry_create_dir(9), entry_remove_file(9), entry_remove_dir(9), aa_destroy_aafs(9). 🦋

xoxo, bestie 💜 — sourced from ./security/apparmor, dated October 2026. aa_create_aafs(9) out. 🎀