aa_path_name(9)

💖 NAME 💖

Hii bestie, welcome to aa_path_name(9) from the Kernel API Manual! ✨ This one is literally here to get the pathname to a buffer ensure dir / is appended. That's the name energy, preserved and slaying. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int aa_path_name (const struct path *path , int flags , char *buffer ,
       const char **name , const char **info , const char *disconnected );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• path — the path to the file (NOT NULL). 💅
• flags — flags controlling path name generation. ✨
• buffer — buffer to put the name in (NOT NULL). 🎀
• name — Returns - the generated path name if !error (NOT NULL). 👑
• info — Returns - information on why the path lookup failed (MAYBE NULL). 🦋
• disconnected — string to prepend to disconnected paths. 🌸

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

name is a pointer to the beginning of the pathname (which usually differs from the beginning of the buffer), or NULL. 💖 If there is an error, name may contain a partial or invalid name that can be used for audit purposes, but it can not be used for mediation. That distinction is important, bestie — audit purposes, not mediation. 🚨

We need PATH_IS_DIR to indicate whether the file is a directory or not because the file may not yet exist, and so we cannot check the inode's file type. 🦋 No cap, that's why it's there. ✨

🎀 RETURN 🎀

0, else error code if could retrieve name. That's the return section, periodt. 💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/apparmor/path.c — d_namespace_path(9). Go read that too, iykyk. 💜

xoxo, your aa_path_name(9) bestie 💖 — source/version: ./security/apparmor, date: October 2026. 🎀