next_profile(9)

🦋 next_profile(9) 🦋

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat 💖. This page is all about next_profile, and yes, the manual name is right there in the title: next_profile(9). Let’s get into it, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

next_profile — step to the next profile in where ever it may be 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

struct aa_profile * next_profile (struct aa_ns *root , struct aa_profile *profile );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• root — the root namespace, and bestie it is NOT NULL (like, absolutely not optional).
• profile — the current profile, also NOT NULL (same energy, no skipping).

🔥 RETURN 🔥

The next profile, or NULL if there isn’t one. That’s the whole return vibe 😭👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The kernel file to peek at is ./security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c, and here’s the full bestie squad of references — every single one, fr fr:

• mangle_name(9)
• __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)
• 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 page, bestie 💖 — source/version footer says ./security/apparmor, the date is October 2026, and next_profile(9) is signing off, periodt 🎀✨