seq_show_profile(9)

💅 seq_show_profile(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment ✨

okay bestie, strap in, because we're deep in the kernel API manual (that's section 9, the kernel developer pages, iykyk) and today's main character is seq_show_profile. it's giving "tiny helper function that does one thing and does it slayfully" 🎀

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🦋 NAME

seq_show_profile — show a profile entry 👑

like, literally, it shows a profile entry. that's the whole vibe. no notes.

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✨ SYNOPSIS

int seq_show_profile (struct seq_file *f , void *p );

return type int, two args, in and out, periodt 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS

• f — the seq_file to file 🫶 the seq_file you're writing into, bestie. that's the destination.
• p — current position (profile), and it is (NOT NULL) 🚨 like, do not pass NULL here, fr fr, that's the one thing the manpage yells at you about in all caps.

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🔥 RETURN

error on failure 😭 that's it. that's the return value story. if it goes wrong, you get an error. iconic minimalism.

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💜 SEE ALSO

the kernel file lives at ./security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c and honestly the whole friend group is here, so let's do the roll call 🌈:

• mangle_name(9)
• __aafs_setup_d_inode(9)
• aafs_create(9)
• aafs_create_file(9)
• aafs_create_dir(9)
• aafs_remove(9)
• aa_simple_write_to_buffer(9)
• aa_get_data_from_compressed(9)
• query_data(9)
• query_label(9)
• aa_write_access(9)
• __next_ns(9)
• __first_profile(9)
• __next_profile(9)
• next_profile(9)
• p_start(9)
• p_next(9)
• p_stop(9)
• entry_create_file(9)
• entry_create_dir(9)
• entry_remove_file(9)
• entry_remove_dir(9)
• aa_destroy_aafs(9)
• aa_create_aafs(9)

all twenty-four of them, no cap, nobody left behind 🧚✨

lowkey if you're poking around AppArmor's apparmorfs internals and you found this page, you're already kind of a legend ngl 👑

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one came out of the ./security/apparmor corner of the source tree, dated October 2026, living its best life under seq_show_profile(9). go show some profile entries, ily, bye 🎀🦋⭐