read_name(9)

read_name(9)

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 this little icon is the read handler for "ipe/policies/$name/name", and she is literally here to deliver the policy name. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

read_name — Read handler for "ipe/policies/$name/name". 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ssize_t read_name (struct file *f , char __user *data , size_t len ,
       loff_t *offset );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• f — supplies a file structure representing the securityfs node 🫶
• data — supplies a buffer passed to the write syscall 👀
• len — supplies the length of data 📏
• offset — unused. literally just vibing there 💀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

on success, data will be populated with the policy_name attribute. slay, that's the whole vibe ✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

• Length of buffer written — Success 🔥
• -ENOENT — Policy initializing/deleted 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie, go read these next, iykyk 💜

• Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy_fs.c struct ipefs_file(9)
• read_pkcs7(9)
• read_policy(9)
• read_version(9)
• setactive(9)
• getactive(9)
• update_policy(9)
• delete_policy(9)
• ipe_del_policyfs_node(9)
• ipe_new_policyfs_node(9)

mwah 💋 this page came from source/version ./security/ipe, dated October 2026. periodt. 🎀