smack_cred_prepare(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so we're in the Kernel API Manual today bestie, and the page is smack_cred_prepare(9) — it's a short one, which honestly? iconic of it. hydrate, sit pretty, let's go 🫶✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

smack_cred_prepare — prepare a new set of credentials for modification 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

       int smack_cred_prepare (struct cred *new , const struct cred *old ,
       gfp_t gfp );

💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

  • new — the new credentials, aka the fresh set you're setting up 🌸
  • old — the original credentials, the ones you started from 🎀
  • gfp — the atomicity of any memory allocations, iykyk 😌

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Prepare a new set of credentials for modification.

that's literally the whole thing, no cap. it does the prep so the new creds are ready to be modified — short, sweet, to the point, and honestly a little slay of a function 🔥

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — and like, the entire extended smack family, because this page refuses to be lonely 💀

like, that's the whole friend group right there, no cap 🧚💜

and that's the page, bestie — brought to you by source ./security/smack, dated October 2026, filed under smack_cred_prepare(9). mwah, go prep those creds 💋🎀

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