ipe_parse_policy(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

ipe_parse_policy — okay so this is ipe_parse_policy(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it’s literally: given a string, parse the string into an IPE policy ✨. Bestie, that’s the whole vibe, no cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ipe_parse_policy (struct ipe_policy *p );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• p — a partially filled ipe_policy structure you’re populating with the result. It must have text and textlen set, periodt 🫶.

🎀 RETURN 🎀

• 0 — Success 🌈
• -EBADMSG — Policy is invalid 😭
• -ENOMEM — Out of Memory 💀
• -ERANGE — Policy version number overflow 🔥
• -EINVAL — Policy version parsing error 🙈

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy_parser.c, plus new_parsed_policy(9), remove_comment(9), remove_trailing_spaces(9), parse_version(9), parse_header(9), token_default(9), free_rule(9), parse_operation(9), parse_action(9), parse_property(9), parse_rule(9), ipe_free_parsed_policy(9), validate_policy(9) — go read those if you want the full lore, iykyk 💖.

🫶 That’s the whole page, babe. Source/version: ./security/ipe · date: October 2026 · page: ipe_parse_policy(9). Bye bestie! 💅