ima_parse_add_rule(9)

🎀 ima_parse_add_rule(9) 🎀

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for ima_parse_add_rule, and it's literally here to add a rule to ima_policy_rules. bestie, it's giving short-and-iconic kernel helper energy. 💅✨

✨ NAME ✨

ima_parse_add_rule — add a rule to ima_policy_rules

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ssize_t ima_parse_add_rule (char *rule );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• rule — the ima measurement policy rule. that's the thing you're handing over, no cap. 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the vibe is: avoid locking by allowing just one writer at a time in ima_write_policy. that's the whole move. 👑

It returns the length of the rule parsed, or an error code on failure. slay when it parses, sad little error code when it doesn't. 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Kernel file: ./security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
• ima_match_rule_data(9)
• ima_match_rules(9)
• ima_match_policy(9)
• ima_update_policy_flags(9)
• ima_init_policy(9)
• ima_update_policy(9)
• ima_delete_rules(9)
• ima_measure_loaded_policy(9)

xoxo, your kernel API bestie 💜 — source/version: ./security/integrity/ima, October 2026. 🎀✨