keyring_clear(9)

💅 keyring_clear — bestie's guide to wiping a keyring ✨

okay so real talk, this is keyring_clear(9) from the Kernel API Manual (yep, section 9, we're in kernel-land now 🧚). it's a tiny little function with one job and honestly? it ate. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int keyring_clear (struct key *keyring );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one arg, one int back. iconic 👑

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• keyring — the keyring you wanna clear out. like, this one, the one you're pointing at. no cap, that's the one 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so what does it actually do? it clears the contents of the specified keyring. everything inside? gone bestie. the keyring itself is still there (it's not being deleted, it's just getting emptied out, lowkey a spring cleaning moment 🌸).

and then it tells you how it went:

• returns 0 if it worked — slay, success, we love to see it ✨
• returns -ENOTDIR if the thing you handed it isn't a keyring — like, it's giving "wrong vibe, wrong object" 😭. the ENOTDIR error, because what you passed isn't a directory-type keyring.

ngl, that's the whole function. short and sweet, main character energy in like four lines of code 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

all the related girlies, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./security/keys/keyring.c
• key_put_tag(9)
• key_remove_domain(9)
• restrict_link_reject(9)
• keyring_search_rcu(9)
• keyring_search(9)
• keyring_restrict(9)
• key_link(9)
• key_unlink(9)
• key_move(9)

like, go read those too if you wanna be a keyring sommelier 🍓 iykyk

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✨ and that's the whole page! ✨ this little cutie lives under ./security/keys, and the manual's dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's from the future, we stan a forward-thinking keyring function 💜🦋🎀 bye bestie, go clear some keyrings (safely!) 🫶