aa_get_profile(9)

💖 aa_get_profile 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the aa_get_profile(9) page from the kernel API manual. It's short, it's sweet, and it's giving “tiny function, serious refcount business.” ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

aa_get_profile — increment refcount on profile @p 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct aa_profile * aa_get_profile (struct aa_profile *p );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — profile (MAYBE NULL) 🙈

👑 RETURN 👑

pointer to p. If p is NULL, this will return NULL. 🫶

Requires: p must be held with valid refcount when called. No cap, that's a real requirement — make sure it's got a valid refcount before you call, fr fr. 💀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/include/policy.h plus these iconic little references:

• aa_get_pdb(9)
• aa_put_pdb(9)
• aa_get_newest_profile(9)
• aa_get_profile_not0(9)
• aa_get_profile_rcu(9)
• aa_put_profile(9)

mwah 💋 this page comes from ./security/apparmor/include, dated October 2026, and it's aa_get_profile(9) all the way down. byeee 🫶🌈