audit_ctl_owner_current(9)

💅 audit_ctl_owner_current — like, the whole manual, but make it make sense

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel-space icons only ✨) and it's honestly tiny but it's important, so grab your iced coffee and let's go 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

audit_ctl_owner_current — the lil vibe check that tells you whether the current task is the one holding the audit control lock 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool audit_ctl_owner_current (void );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• void — no arguments. nope. zero. nothing. it takes nothing 💀 (and honestly? iconic.)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the tea ☕: this function returns true if the current task owns the audit control lock, and false if it doesn't own the lock. that's it. that's the whole post. no cap 🫶

like literally, you call it, you find out if you're the main character holding the lock or if you're just standing outside the group chat 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

this is the part where the page goes absolutely feral with the cross-references, so buckle up bestie 😭 — kernel file ./kernel/audit.c, plus struct audit_net(9), struct auditd_connection(9), struct audit_ctl_mutex(9), auditd_test_task(9), audit_ctl_lock(9), audit_ctl_unlock(9), auditd_pid_vnr(9), audit_cfg_lsm(9), audit_get_sk(9), audit_log_lost(9), auditd_conn_free(9), auditd_set(9), kauditd_printk_skb(9), kauditd_rehold_skb(9), kauditd_hold_skb(9), kauditd_retry_skb(9), auditd_reset(9), auditd_send_unicast_skb(9), kauditd_send_queue(9), kauditd_thread(9), audit_send_reply(9), audit_receive(9), audit_serial(9), audit_log_start(9), audit_expand(9), audit_log_format(9), audit_log_n_hex(9), audit_string_contains_control(9), audit_log_n_untrustedstring(9), audit_log_untrustedstring(9), audit_buffer_aux_new(9), audit_buffer_aux_end(9), audit_log_subj_ctx(9), audit_log_path_denied(9), audit_set_loginuid(9), audit_signal_info(9), __audit_log_end(9), audit_log_end(9), audit_log(9).

yeah. that's a lot. read them all, bestie, they're all part of the lore 📚🔥

ngl this one was short but sweet — no warnings to scream about, no bugs to side-eye, just a clean lil boolean 🍓

and that's the wrap! brought to you by the source dir ./kernel 🌈, dated October 2026 ⭐, and the manual page name audit_ctl_owner_current(9) — periodt 💜🫶