audit_log_untrustedstring(9)

✨ audit_log_untrustedstring(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to audit_log_untrustedstring — it lives in the Kernel API Manual, section 9, and it's literally the function you call when the string you're logging might be full of random chaos characters 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

audit_log_untrustedstring — log a string that may contain random characters 🫶

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void audit_log_untrustedstring (struct audit_buffer *ab , const char *string );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• ab — the audit_buffer 👑
• string — the string to be logged ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Same as audit_log_n_untrustedstring, except that strlen is used to determine string length. no cap, that's the whole vibe check 🧚

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./kernel/audit.c plus this whole iconic friend group:

• 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)
• 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_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)

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mwah 💋 this page came from ./kernel and it's dated October 2026 — stan this manpage era, fr fr 🎀✨