security_initcall_late(9)

💖 security_initcall_late(9) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes this is a section 9 situation, we're in the deep kernel lore now 🧚 and tbh this page is short but it ate. let me put you on.

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✨ NAME ✨

security_initcall_late — the one that runs the LSM late initcalls 🌸

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int security_initcall_late (void );

so it's an int coming back at you, and it takes... nothing. literally nothing. no arguments, no drama 🎀

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• void — no arguments. that's it. that's the whole vibe. she takes zero input and she's thriving 💅

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

the whole friend group, fr fr — from ./security/lsm_init.c:

• lsm_choose_security(9)
• lsm_choose_lsm(9)
• lsm_debug_enable(9)
• lsm_enabled_set(9)
• lsm_is_enabled(9)
• lsm_order_exists(9)
• lsm_order_append(9)
• lsm_order_parse(9)
• lsm_blob_size_update(9)
• lsm_prepare(9)
• lsm_init_single(9)
• lsm_static_call_init(9)
• security_add_hooks(9)
• early_security_init(9)
• security_init(9)
• security_initcall_pure(9)
• security_initcall_early(9)
• security_initcall_core(9)
• security_initcall_subsys(9)
• security_initcall_fs(9)
• security_initcall_device(9)
• security_initcall_late_sync(9)

like, the initcall pipeline is a whole friend group and security_initcall_late is the last one to show up to the function 😭 iconic behavior honestly 👑

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ngl bestie, that's the entire page — no options, no environment variables, no exit statuses, no bugs to warn you about. she's a short queen and we love her for it 🫶

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and that's the tea ☕ from ./security, October 2026 — security_initcall_late(9), out 💜✨