get_current_user(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to get_current_user(9) — this is the Kernel API Manual page, and we’re gonna get you comfy with it 💖✨

get_current_user — Get the current task’s user_struct 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

get_current_user

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Here’s the tea: get_current_user gets the user record of the current task, pinning it so that it can’t go away. It’s literally giving “hold onto this, bestie, don’t let it dip” 🫶💅

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./include/linux/cred.h — and these are the SEE ALSO besties, no cap:

• get_group_info(9)
• put_group_info(9)
• get_cred_many(9)
• put_cred_many(9)
• current_cred(9)
• current_real_cred(9)
• __task_cred(9)
• get_current_cred(9)
• get_current_groups(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version: ./include/linux, date: October 2026, and that’s the get_current_user(9) page, bestie. byeee 🎀🦋