lsm_choose_lsm(9)

💅 lsm_choose_lsm(9) — like, the modern LSM selection era

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for lsm_choose_lsm(9) — yes that's the manual name, don't @ me, we're doing this properly ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lsm_choose_lsm — modern LSM selection, and yes the "modern" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, we love that for it 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int lsm_choose_lsm (char *str );

like literally that's the whole signature, she's compact, she's iconic, she ate 🎀

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• str — the kernel command line parameter 🫶 that's it, that's the whole argument, no cap

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

so many friends!! the whole group chat is here, and first up we have the kernel file ./security/lsm_init.c which is lowkey the main character of this whole situation 🧚

and then, alphabetically-ish, all the besties:

• lsm_choose_security(9)
• lsm_debug_enable(9)
• lsm_enabled_set(9)
• lsm_is_enabled(9)
• lsm_order_exists(9)
• lsm_order_append(9)
• lsm_order_parse(9)
• lsm_blob_size_update(9)
• lsm_prepare(9)
• lsm_init_single(9)
• lsm_static_call_init(9)
• security_add_hooks(9)
• early_security_init(9)
• security_init(9)
• security_initcall_pure(9)
• security_initcall_early(9)
• security_initcall_core(9)
• security_initcall_subsys(9)
• security_initcall_fs(9)
• security_initcall_device(9)
• security_initcall_late(9)
• security_initcall_late_sync(9)

the way that list just keeps going — she's thorough, she's committed, she's giving main character energy fr fr 👑

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💀 reminder bestie: every one of those is a real reference, don't go skipping any of them just because the list is long, iykyk

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and that's the page!! 🌈 this lil sign-off comes to you from <./security> in the source tree, version dated October 2026 — mwah, go read the other pages, ily, bye 💜🎀🦋