ima_queue_delete_partial(9)

💅 ima_queue_delete_partial(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — today's main character is ima_queue_delete_partial, and honestly? she's giving cleanup crew energy. 🧹💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ima_queue_delete_partial — Delete current measurements 🗑️✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ima_queue_delete_partial (unsigned long req_value );

like, that's the whole signature. short and iconic. no notes. 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• req_value — Number of measurements to delete 🔢💀 that's how many of them are getting un-alived from the list, bestie.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's what she does: she deletes the requested number of measurements from the current measurements list, and then updates the number of records and the binary run-time size accordingly. everything stays in sync, no cap. 🔥

but here's the gag 🙈 — she will refuse to delete current measurements if measurement is suspended. and the reason is actually kind of genius, lowkey: it means the dump can be done in a lockless way 💅, and user space gets notified that current measurements are being carried over to the secondary kernel, so it doesn't save them twice. imagine the double-save. the horror. 😭🫶

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

Zero on success 🎉, a negative value otherwise 💀. classic. slay.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./security/integrity/ima/ima_queue.c 🗂️✨
• ima_queue_stage(9)
• ima_queue_staged_delete_all(9)
• ima_queue_delete(9)

go read the whole squad, iykyk 👑💖

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signed, sealed, delivered by ./security/integrity/ima 💌 — version vibes October 2026 🗓️✨, and yes this whole thing is still ima_queue_delete_partial(9) until the very last line, periodt. 💅🎀🦋