mangle_name(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the mangle_name(9) page — this is the kernel API manual, and the manual name is literally mangle_name(9) (iykyk). The function has one job and one job only: mangle a profile name to std profile layout form 💅✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int mangle_name (const char *name , char *target );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• name — the profile name to mangle. Docs are loud about this one: NOT NULL 🚨
• target — the buffer to store the mangled name, same length as name. This one is MAYBE NULL 👀

okay so name is marked NOT NULL — do not roll up with a null pointer, bestie, that is not the vibe 💀

✨ RETURN ✨

returns the length of mangled name — that's the return value, periodt 🫶

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

bestie, these all hang around the Kernel file ./security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c — go peek if you're in your kernel-source era:

• __aafs_setup_d_inode(9)
• aafs_create(9)
• aafs_create_file(9)
• aafs_create_dir(9)
• aafs_remove(9)
• aa_simple_write_to_buffer(9)
• aa_get_data_from_compressed(9)
• query_data(9)
• query_label(9)
• aa_write_access(9)
• __next_ns(9)
• __first_profile(9)
• __next_profile(9)
• next_profile(9)
• p_start(9)
• p_next(9)
• p_stop(9)
• seq_show_profile(9)
• entry_create_file(9)
• entry_create_dir(9)
• entry_remove_file(9)
• entry_remove_dir(9)
• aa_destroy_aafs(9)
• aa_create_aafs(9)

okay that's the whole mangle_name(9) page, straight from ./security/apparmor, dated October 2026 — slay, stay mangled, bye bestie 🫶💖✨