aa_get_task_label(9)

💅 aa_get_task_label(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — today’s main character energy belongs to aa_get_task_label(9). She’s here to get another task’s label, and honestly? iconic.

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✨ NAME ✨

aa_get_task_label — get another task's label. literally that’s the whole vibe, no cap.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct aa_label * aa_get_task_label (struct task_struct *task );

okay so you pass in a task, and the function gives you back a pointer-to-label situation. slay.

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• task — the task to query, and bestie it is flagged NOT NULL 🫶. So yeah, do not come in here with a null task; that is not the move.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

You get back a counted reference to the task’s label. periodt. that’s the return, and it’s giving exactly what it needs to give.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie, don’t leave without checking the related lore — it’s all right here:

• Kernel file ./security/apparmor/task.c
• aa_replace_current_label(9)
• aa_set_current_onexec(9)
• aa_set_current_hat(9)
• aa_restore_previous_label(9)
• audit_ptrace_mask(9)
• aa_may_ptrace(9)

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signed, sealed, slayed from the ./security/apparmor corner of the kernel — dated October 2026 — page aa_get_task_label(9) 💜🫶✨