key_is_positive(9)

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for key_is_positive(9) — yes, we’re doing a whole manual page for one tiny boolean check, and the confidence? iconic. 💅✨

💖 NAME 💖

key_is_positive — determine if a key has been positively instantiated.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool key_is_positive (const struct key *key );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• key — the key to check. That’s the one we’re looking at, bestie. 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Here’s the tea: it returns true if the specified key has been positively instantiated, and false otherwise. That’s the whole function, no cap. 😭✨

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• Kernel file ./include/linux/key.h
• request_key(9), request_key_net(9), request_key_net_rcu(9)

bye bestie 🫶 — source path ./include/linux, date October 2026, page key_is_positive(9). 💖🎀