audit_ctl_unlock(9)

💅 audit_ctl_unlock — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 💅

Okay so, welcome to the audit_ctl_unlock(9) page — it lives in the Kernel API Manual, and honestly? It's a short one. A little icon, a little moment. But we're gonna give it the full main-character treatment anyway, because every function deserves its flowers. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

audit_ctl_unlock — drop the audit control lock. That's it. That's the whole job. She releases the lock, she minds her business, she leaves. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void audit_ctl_unlock (void );

Not me copying this exactly, because the facts do not change, bestie. void in, void out. Clean. Minimalist. It's giving "no thoughts, head empty, just unlock." 🦋

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🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• void — no arguments. Zero. None. Nada. She takes nothing, she needs nothing, she is thriving on her own. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./kernel/audit.c. And now the whole friend group — every one of these, no gatekeeping, no skips, fr fr:

• struct audit_net(9)
• struct auditd_connection(9)
• struct audit_ctl_mutex(9)
• auditd_test_task(9)
• audit_ctl_lock(9)
• audit_ctl_owner_current(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)

Not me listing all 39 of these like a group-chat roll call 😭 but every single one matters, iykyk. Go read them. Or don't. But like… go read them. 💖

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Sign-off era 🌈

Big kiss to the source ./kernel and to October 2026 for the timestamp — the manpage fossil record ate and left no crumbs. 🦋💜 Go unlock that lock, bestie. Periodt. 👑