audit_reset_context(9)

🌸 audit_reset_context(9) 🌸

okay so this page is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally about audit_reset_context — the function that gives your audit_context a full reset glow-up. Bestie, we're keeping every technical deet, just with main character energy. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

audit_reset_context — reset a audit_context structure. That's it, that's the name, periodt. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void audit_reset_context (struct audit_context *ctx );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• ctx — the audit_context to reset. That's the whole argument list, no cap.

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so here's the tea: every field in the audit_context gets reset to an initial state. All references held by fields get dropped, and private memory gets released. Slay, honestly.

When this function returns, the audit_context will be suitable for reuse — but only so long as the passed context is not NULL or a dummy context. That caveat is important, bestie; do not skip the vibe check. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./kernel/auditsc.c is the home base, and here's the whole friend group:

• __audit_filter_op(9)
• audit_filter_uring(9)
• audit_alloc(9)
• audit_log_uring(9)
• __audit_free(9)
• audit_return_fixup(9)
• __audit_uring_entry(9)
• __audit_uring_exit(9)
• __audit_syscall_entry(9)
• __audit_syscall_exit(9)
• __audit_getname(9)
• __audit_inode(9)
• __audit_inode_child(9)
• auditsc_get_stamp(9)
• __audit_mq_open(9)
• __audit_mq_sendrecv(9)
• __audit_mq_notify(9)
• __audit_mq_getsetattr(9)
• __audit_ipc_obj(9)
• __audit_ipc_set_perm(9)
• __audit_socketcall(9)
• __audit_fd_pair(9)
• __audit_sockaddr(9)
• audit_signal_info_syscall(9)
• __audit_log_bprm_fcaps(9)
• __audit_log_capset(9)
• audit_core_dumps(9)
• audit_seccomp(9)

💖 signed off from ./kernel, October 2026 — audit_reset_context(9) out. Stay iconic, kernel bestie 💅✨