audit_compare_dname_path(9)

🦋 audit_compare_dname_path(9) 🦋

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 💖 this page is all about audit_compare_dname_path, and it's lowkey straightforward.

🎀 NAME 🎀

audit_compare_dname_path — compare the given dentry name with the last component in the given path. Return of 0 indicates a match. periodt 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int audit_compare_dname_path (const struct qstr *dname , const char
       *path , int parentlen );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• dname — the dentry name that we're comparing ✨
• path — the full pathname that we're comparing 🫶
• parentlen — length of the parent if known. Passing in AUDIT_NAME_FULL here indicates that we must compute this value. no cap 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./kernel/auditfilter.c
• audit_rule_change(9)
• audit_list_rules_send(9)
• parent_len(9)

iykyk, these are the SEE ALSO besties, and they're all right here 💜

xoxo, this page came from the ./kernel source tree, dated October 2026, and it's for audit_compare_dname_path(9) — mwah 💋✨