abort_creds(9)

💅 abort_creds(9) — Kernel API Manual, section 9 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to abort_creds(9) — genuinely one of those little kernel functions that's like, the cleanup crew of the credentials world. It lives in the Kernel API Manual (section 9, for the uninitiated ✨), and ngl it's short but it matters.

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✨ NAME ✨

abort_creds — Discard a set of credentials and unlock the current task

Like, it takes your half-finished creds situation and goes "nope, we're not doing this" and then unlocks the task so everyone else can move on. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void abort_creds (struct cred *new );

That's the whole thing. One argument, void return, no drama. Periodt. 💅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• new — The credentials that were going to be applied. Like, they were about to be main character energy, and then they weren't. 🙈

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Discard a set of credentials that were under construction and unlock the current task.

That's it, that's the vibe. You had creds being built, you're not committing to them, so this function throws them away — "under construction" no more, bestie — and unlocks the current task while it's at it. So it's giving cleanup crew with a side of releasing the lock, and honestly? We stan a multi-tasking icon. 👑

Think of it as the "never mind lol" of the credentials API. 🫶

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

Kernel file ./kernel/cred.c, plus these absolute legends:

• __put_cred(9)
• get_task_cred(9)
• prepare_creds(9)
• commit_creds(9)
• cred_fscmp(9)
• prepare_kernel_cred(9)
• set_security_override(9)
• set_create_files_as(9)

iykyk — if you're in the creds code you already know all of these fr fr. 🌈

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — with love from the ./kernel corner of the world, dated October 2026, authored by the kernel folks themselves. go forth and abort those creds responsibly, bestie ⭐