auditd_test_task(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, meet auditd_test_task(9) from the Kernel API Manual 🫶 this tiny helper’s whole personality is: auditd_test_task — Check to see if a given task is an audit daemon. That’s the assignment, and it ate. 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here’s the signature, no cap:

int auditd_test_task (struct task_struct *task );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• task — the task to check 👀

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, it’s literally a vibe check for audit daemons: Return 1 if the task is a registered audit daemon, 0 otherwise. That’s it. That’s the whole function. Periodt. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

lowkey the whole audit cinematic universe lives in the kernel file ./kernel/audit.c, and this page points you at: struct audit_net(9), struct auditd_connection(9), struct audit_ctl_mutex(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_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).

bye bestie! 🎀 source/version: ./kernel • date: October 2026 • page: auditd_test_task(9) — mwah 💋