free_rule(9)

✨ free_rule(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and honestly? it's a little baby page but it's an important one, so let's get into it 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

free_rule — frees the ipe_rule struct you hand it. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void free_rule (struct ipe_rule *r );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• r — the ipe_rule struct you want freed. hand it over bestie, it's done for 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so you've got an ipe_rule struct named r and you want it gone — this function is literally the one that frees it. slay. 🔥

⚠️ but here's the part you CANNOT skip: r has to be removed from any lists before you call this function. no cap. if it's still chained up in a list somewhere, that's on you, and it's giving undefined behaviour energy 😭 so unlink it first, then free it. periodt.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy_parser.c
• new_parsed_policy(9)
• remove_comment(9)
• remove_trailing_spaces(9)
• parse_version(9)
• parse_header(9)
• token_default(9)
• parse_operation(9)
• parse_action(9)
• parse_property(9)
• parse_rule(9)
• ipe_free_parsed_policy(9)
• validate_policy(9)
• ipe_parse_policy(9)

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🫶 this lil icon comes from ./security/ipe, dated October 2026, and it goes by free_rule(9) — go free those rules responsibly, mwah 💋