security_ino...idate_secctx(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the security_ino...idate_secctx(9) page from the Kernel API Manual. This is the little function with main-character energy that says “hey security module, revalidate this inode’s security label,” and I’m literally obsessed with how tiny it is.

security_inode_invalidate_secctx — invalidate an inode's security label.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void security_inode_invalidate_secctx (struct inode *inode );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • inode — an inode. That’s the argument. The label is inode, the thing is inode, we love a no-notes king. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is the notify moment, fr fr: it tells the security module that it must revalidate the security context of an inode. No cap, that’s the whole plot. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file to check: ./security/security.c.

The original page lists this whole LSM cinematic universe, and I am not skipping a single one, bestie:

mwah 💋 and that’s the page, bestie! source/version: ./security; date stamp: October 2026.

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