security_file_receive(9)

🦋 security_file_receive(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🦋

okay so this is a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual and we're talking about security_file_receive — yes the (9) is part of the name, that's just how the kernel section does it 💅 stay with me.

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✨ NAME ✨

security_file_receive — lowkey the vibe check for whether you're allowed to receive a file over IPC 👀

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int security_file_receive (struct file *file );

that's it. one argument. short and iconic, no notes 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• file — the file that's being received. like, the actual file being handed to you. this is the moment.

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically ✨ this hook ✨ is the whole point of the page:

it lets security modules control the ability of a process to receive an open file descriptor via socket IPC.

that's the entire personality. a process wants to get an already-open fd slid to it over a socket, and this hook is where the LSM stack gets to look at it and go "hmm, yes" or "hmm, absolutely not" 💅 the security modules are the main characters here, this guy's just the doorway.

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🔥 RETURN 🔥

• returns 0 if permission is granted 🎉

(that's the only return behaviour documented on this page — no extra lore, i'm not gonna invent any, that's not the move 🙈)

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

okay bestie, buckle up, this list is long — it's giving "the entire security hooks roster showed up to the group chat" 😭 the first entry is the kernel file itself:

Kernel file ./security/security.c

and then, in exactly this order, the whole squad:

lsm_file_alloc(9), lsm_backing_file_alloc(9), lsm_blob_alloc(9),
lsm_cred_alloc(9), lsm_inode_alloc(9), lsm_task_alloc(9), lsm_ipc_alloc(9),
lsm_key_alloc(9), lsm_msg_msg_alloc(9), lsm_bdev_alloc(9),
lsm_bpf_map_alloc(9), lsm_bpf_prog_alloc(9), lsm_bpf_token_alloc(9),
lsm_superblock_alloc(9), lsm_fill_user_ctx(9),
security_binder_set_context_mgr(9), security_binder_transaction(9),
security_binder_transfer_binder(9), security_binder_transfer_file(9),
security_ptrace_access_check(9), security_ptrace_traceme(9),
security_capget(9), security_capset(9), security_capable(9),
security_quotactl(9), security_quota_on(9), security_syslog(9),
security_settime64(9), security_vm_enough_memory_mm(9),
security_bprm_creds_for_exec(9), security_bprm_creds_from_file(9),
security_bprm_check(9), security_bprm_committing_creds(9),
security_bprm_committed_creds(9), security_fs_context_submount(9),
security_fs_context_dup(9), security_fs_context_parse_param(9),
security_sb_alloc(9), security_sb_delete(9), security_sb_free(9),
security_free_mnt_opts(9), security_sb_eat_lsm_opts(9),
security_sb_mnt_opts_compat(9), security_sb_remount(9),
security_sb_kern_mount(9), security_sb_show_options(9),
security_sb_statfs(9), security_sb_mount(9), security_sb_umount(9),
security_sb_pivotroot(9), security_sb_set_mnt_opts(9),
security_sb_clone_mnt_opts(9), security_move_mount(9),
security_path_notify(9), security_inode_alloc(9),
security_inode_free(9), security_dentry_init_security(9),
security_dentry_create_files_as(9), security_inode_init_security(9),
security_inode_init_security_anon(9), security_path_mknod(9),
security_path_post_mknod(9), security_path_mkdir(9),
security_path_rmdir(9), security_path_unlink(9),
security_path_symlink(9), security_path_link(9),
security_path_rename(9), security_path_truncate(9),
security_path_chmod(9), security_path_chown(9), security_path_chroot(9),
security_inode_create(9), security_inode_post_create_tmpfile(9),
security_inode_link(9), security_inode_unlink(9),
security_inode_symlink(9), security_inode_mkdir(9),
security_inode_rmdir(9), security_inode_mknod(9),
security_inode_rename(9), security_inode_readlink(9),
security_inode_follow_link(9), security_inode_permission(9),
security_inode_setattr(9), security_inode_post_setattr(9),
security_inode_getattr(9), security_inode_setxattr(9),
security_inode_set_acl(9), security_inode_post_set_acl(9),
security_inode_get_acl(9), security_inode_remove_acl(9),
security_inode_post_remove_acl(9), security_inode_post_setxattr(9),
security_inode_getxattr(9), security_inode_listxattr(9),
security_inode_removexattr(9), security_inode_post_removexattr(9),
security_inode_file_setattr(9), security_inode_file_getattr(9),
security_inode_need_killpriv(9), security_inode_killpriv(9),
security_inode_getsecurity(9), security_inode_setsecurity(9),
security_inode_listsecurity(9), security_inode_getlsmprop(9),
security_inode_copy_up(9), security_inode_copy_up_xattr(9),
security_inode_setintegrity(9), security_kernfs_init_security(9),
security_file_permission(9), security_file_alloc(9),
security_file_release(9), security_file_free(9),
security_backing_file_alloc(9), security_backing_file_free(9),
security_file_ioctl(9), security_file_ioctl_compat(9),
security_mmap_file(9), security_mmap_backing_file(9),
security_mmap_addr(9), security_file_mprotect(9), security_file_lock(9),
security_file_fcntl(9), security_file_set_fowner(9),
security_file_send_sigiotask(9), security_file_open(9),
security_file_post_open(9), security_file_truncate(9),
security_task_alloc(9), security_task_free(9),
security_cred_alloc_blank(9), security_cred_free(9),
security_prepare_creds(9), security_transfer_creds(9),
security_cred_getsecid(9), security_cred_getlsmprop(9),
security_kernel_act_as(9), security_kernel_create_files_as(9),
security_kernel_module_request(9), security_kernel_read_file(9),
security_kernel_post_read_file(9), security_kernel_load_data(9),
security_kernel_post_load_data(9), security_task_fix_setuid(9),
security_task_fix_setgid(9), security_task_fix_setgroups(9),
security_task_setpgid(9), security_task_getpgid(9),
security_task_getsid(9), security_current_getlsmprop_subj(9),
security_task_getlsmprop_obj(9), security_task_setnice(9),
security_task_setioprio(9), security_task_getioprio(9),
security_task_prlimit(9), security_task_setrlimit(9),
security_task_setscheduler(9), security_task_getscheduler(9),
security_task_movememory(9), security_task_kill(9),
security_task_prctl(9), security_task_to_inode(9),
security_create_user_ns(9), security_ipc_permission(9),
security_ipc_getlsmprop(9), security_msg_msg_alloc(9),
security_msg_msg_free(9), security_msg_queue_alloc(9),
security_msg_queue_free(9), security_msg_queue_associate(9),
security_msg_queue_msgctl(9), security_msg_queue_msgsnd(9),
security_msg_queue_msgrcv(9), security_shm_alloc(9),
security_shm_free(9), security_shm_associate(9), security_shm_shmctl(9),
security_shm_shmat(9), security_sem_alloc(9), security_sem_free(9),
security_sem_associate(9), security_sem_semctl(9),
security_sem_semop(9), security_d_instantiate(9),
security_getselfattr(9), security_setselfattr(9),
security_getprocattr(9), security_setprocattr(9),
security_ismaclabel(9), security_secid_to_secctx(9),
security_lsmprop_to_secctx(9), security_secctx_to_secid(9),
security_release_secctx(9), security_inode_invalidate_secctx(9),
security_inode_notifysecctx(9), security_inode_setsecctx(9),
security_inode_getsecctx(9), security_post_notification(9),
security_watch_key(9), security_netlink_send(9),
security_unix_stream_connect(9), security_unix_may_send(9),
security_socket_create(9), security_socket_post_create(9),
security_socket_socketpair(9), security_socket_bind(9),
security_socket_connect(9), security_socket_listen(9),
security_socket_accept(9), security_socket_sendmsg(9),
security_socket_recvmsg(9), security_socket_getsockname(9),
security_socket_getpeername(9), security_socket_getsockopt(9),
security_socket_setsockopt(9), security_socket_shutdown(9),
security_sock_rcv_skb(9), security_socket_getpeersec_stream(9),
security_socket_getpeersec_dgram(9), lsm_sock_alloc(9),
security_sk_alloc(9), security_sk_free(9), security_sk_clone(9),
security_sk_classify_flow(9), security_req_classify_flow(9),
security_sock_graft(9), security_inet_conn_request(9),
security_inet_csk_clone(9), security_inet_conn_established(9),
security_secmark_relabel_packet(9), security_secmark_refcount_inc(9),
security_secmark_refcount_dec(9), security_tun_dev_alloc_security(9),
security_tun_dev_free_security(9), security_tun_dev_create(9),
security_tun_dev_attach_queue(9), security_tun_dev_attach(9),
security_tun_dev_open(9), security_sctp_assoc_request(9),
security_sctp_bind_connect(9), security_sctp_sk_clone(9),
security_sctp_assoc_established(9), security_mptcp_add_subflow(9),
security_unix_find(9), security_ib_pkey_access(9),
security_ib_endport_manage_subnet(9), security_ib_alloc_security(9),
security_ib_free_security(9), security_xfrm_policy_alloc(9),
security_xfrm_policy_clone(9), security_xfrm_policy_free(9),
security_xfrm_policy_delete(9), security_xfrm_state_alloc(9),
security_xfrm_state_alloc_acquire(9), security_xfrm_state_delete(9),
security_xfrm_state_free(9), security_xfrm_policy_lookup(9),
security_xfrm_state_pol_flow_match(9), security_xfrm_decode_session(9),
security_key_alloc(9), security_key_free(9), security_key_permission(9),
security_key_getsecurity(9), security_key_post_create_or_update(9),
security_audit_rule_init(9), security_audit_rule_known(9),
security_audit_rule_free(9), security_audit_rule_match(9),
security_bpf(9), security_bpf_map(9), security_bpf_prog(9),
security_bpf_map_create(9), security_bpf_prog_load(9),
security_bpf_token_create(9), security_bpf_token_cmd(9),
security_bpf_token_capable(9), security_bpf_map_free(9),
security_bpf_prog_free(9), security_bpf_token_free(9),
security_locked_down(9), security_bdev_alloc(9), security_bdev_free(9),
security_bdev_setintegrity(9), security_perf_event_open(9),
security_perf_event_alloc(9), security_perf_event_free(9),
security_perf_event_read(9), security_perf_event_write(9),
security_uring_override_creds(9), security_uring_sqpoll(9),
security_uring_cmd(9), security_uring_allowed(9),
security_initramfs_populated(9)

ngl that list ate and left no crumbs 💀 every single one of those is a (9) page, so if you need the full LSM cinematic universe, you know where to go 🍓

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 no cap. technically it lives under ./security and this cutie is dated October 2026 — so yeah, future girl summer 🌈💜 slay, go read some more kernel hooks 💅✨