aa_find_child(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to aa_find_child(9) from the Kernel API Manual. the NAME tea is literally: aa_find_child — find a profile by @name in @parent. slay. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the signature, preserved exactly because we do not play about code:

struct aa_profile * aa_find_child (struct aa_profile *parent , const
       char *name );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

two arguments, both highkey mandatory — NOT NULL energy, no exceptions:

• parent — profile to search (NOT NULL)
• name — profile name to search for (NOT NULL)

🦋 RETURN 🦋

you get a refcounted profile, or NULL if it's not found. simple, iconic, no cap. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file: ./security/apparmor/policy.c — and here's the whole squad, every single ref invited:

• aa_pdb_free_kref(9)
• __add_profile(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)
• __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)

kisses 💋 this page comes from source ./security/apparmor and is dated October 2026. periodt. 🫶