aa_label_asxprint(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 aa_label_asxprint(9) 💅

okay bestie, so this one is a Kernel API Manual page — yes it's giving kernel-internals energy but literally it's just one little function and she's actually iconic once you get to know her. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

aa_label_asxprint — allocate a string buffer and print label into it. that's it, that's the whole job. she allocates, she prints, she slays 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int aa_label_asxprint (char **strp , struct aa_ns *ns , struct aa_label
*label , int flags , gfp_t gfp );

no cap, that's the signature exactly as written — spaces before the commas included, do not come for me, that's how the original has it 💀

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • strp — Returns - the allocated buffer with the label name. (NOT NULL) ⭐ so like, this is the output, it comes back to you with the goods. she is NOT NULL, respect her.
  • ns — namespace profile is being viewed from 🌈 the vibe check on which namespace you're looking through.
  • label — label to view (NOT NULL) 👑 also NOT NULL. this one's the main character, the label you actually want to see.
  • flags — flags controlling what label info is printed 🦋 the little knobs that decide which label details make it into the output.
  • gfp — kernel memory allocation type 🧚 how the kernel should go about grabbing memory for this.

🔥 RETURN 🔥

size of name written or would be written if larger than available buffer 💅 so she tells you how many bytes went in — or how many would have, if the buffer was too smol. lowkey useful, ngl.

not me reminding you that strp and label are both NOT NULL — fr fr, don't pass NULL and then act surprised 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

all of these live in the Kernel file ./security/apparmor/label.c — go read the whole family, they're all icons:

and that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 🍓 mwah 💋

sign-off szn: this beauty comes from ./security/apparmor and she's dated October 2026 — yes, the future. she's ahead of her time, periodt. ⭐👑
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