read_policy(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is read_policy(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖 — the read handler for "ipe/policies/$name/policy". that's it, that's the name, periodt. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the exact signature, slay it exactly — don't blink:

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

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• f — supplies a file structure representing the securityfs node. iconic.
• data — supplies a buffer passed to the write syscall. yes, fr fr.
• len — supplies the length of data.
• offset — unused. that's the whole note, bestie.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

on success, data will be populated with the plain-text version of the policy. literally it. 💅

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💖 RETURN 💖

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

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/ipe/policy_fs.c, plus struct ipefs_file(9), read_pkcs7(9), read_name(9), read_version(9), setactive(9), getactive(9), update_policy(9), delete_policy(9), ipe_del_policyfs_node(9), and ipe_new_policyfs_node(9). go read those too, iykyk 👑

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mwah 💋 this lil page comes from ./security/ipe, dated October 2026, and it's read_policy(9) — bye bestie! 🎀