aa_lookupn_profile(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to aa_lookupn_profile(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this icon is literally here to find a profile by its full or partial name. periodt. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct aa_profile * aa_lookupn_profile (struct aa_ns *ns , const char *hname , size_t n );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• ns — the namespace you start from. It is NOT NULL, like actually not optional.
• hname — the name to do the lookup on. It does not contain a namespace prefix, and it is also NOT NULL. no cap.
• n — the size of hname.

bestie, both ns and hname are NOT NULL — this is not a vibe where you pass nothing and hope for the best 💀

🦋 RETURN 🦋

you get a refcounted profile back, or NULL if it's not found. that's the whole return situation, iykyk. 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

the kernel file is literally ./security/apparmor/policy.c, and the whole squad is:

• 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)
• aa_find_child(9)
• __lookup_parent(9)
• __create_missing_ancestors(9)
• __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)

mwah 💋 — source/version ./security/apparmor, date October 2026, and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶✨