calculate_security_buffer(9)

✨ calculate_security_buffer(9) ✨

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — today’s main character is calculate_security_buffer(9), and it literally determines the size of the security buffer for an authentication scheme. no cap 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

calculate_security_buffer — determines the size of the security buffer for an authentication scheme. slay 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

size_t calculate_security_buffer (const char *authentication );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• authentication — the authentication content. that’s the whole argument, bestie ✨

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Currently, the only supported type is Admin password. that’s it — that’s the vibe 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c
• populate_string_buffer(9)
• calculate_string_buffer(9)
• populate_security_buffer(9)
• map_wmi_error(9)
• reset_bios_show(9)
• reset_bios_store(9)
• pending_reboot_show(9)
• create_attributes_level_sysfs_files(9)
• strlcpy_attr(9)
• get_wmiobj_pointer(9)
• get_instance_count(9)
• alloc_attributes_data(9)
• destroy_attribute_objs(9)
• release_attributes_data(9)
• init_bios_attributes(9)

okay that’s the whole page, bestie 💖 source/version is ./drivers/platform/x86/dell/de..., dated October 2026 — mwah, bye 🫶