security_xfrm_policy_delete(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 security_xfrm_policy_delete — kernel API manual, section 9

okay so bestie, we're in the kernel API manual (security_xfrm_policy_delete(9), section 9, no cap) and this one is a tiny little LSM hook that's basically the bouncer at the door of your SPD 💅

✨ NAME ✨

security_xfrm_policy_delete — the vibe check that asks "hey, are we allowed to delete this xfrm policy?"

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int security_xfrm_policy_delete (struct xfrm_sec_ctx *ctx );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • ctx — the xfrm security context, aka the little badge that says who this policy thinks it is 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

It authorizes the deletion of a SPD entry. That's it, that's the whole job. Literally the "you may pass" gate before a policy gets yeeted out of the Security Policy Database. Slay, honestly 👑

⭐ RETURN ⭐

Returns 0 if permission is granted. (Yes queen, zero means yes here 💖)

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

So... the kernel file ./security/security.c has a lot of friends, and we are not skipping a single one of them. Every single reference, present and accounted for, in order:

not a single one skipped, bestie. we ate and left zero crumbs 🍓

like, that's genuinely the whole page. go forth and delete your policies (with permission) 💜

cute little sign-off: this one lives in the kernel source file ./security, it's part of section 9, and it's dated October 2026 — mwah, bye bestie! 🧚✨

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