smack_inet_csk_clone(9)

💖 smack_inet_csk_clone(9) — Kernel API Manual 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to smack_inet_csk_clone(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally the “copy the connection info onto the new socket” moment. it’s giving tiny function with main character energy, no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

smack_inet_csk_clone — Copy the connection information to the new socket.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

void smack_inet_csk_clone (struct sock *sk , const struct request_sock
       *req );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• sk — the new socket. the fresh one, the socket getting the connection info. 💖
• req — the connection's request_sock. this is the connection’s request info, periodt.

🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

Transfer the connection's peer label to the newly created socket. that’s the whole plot: the connection’s peer label gets transferred over to the brand-new socket. lowkey simple, highkey important. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — plus literally the whole Smack squad, in order: smk_fetch(9), init_inode_smack(9), init_task_smack(9), smk_copy_rules(9), smk_copy_relabel(9), smk_ptrace_mode(9), smk_ptrace_rule_check(9), smack_ptrace_access_check(9), smack_ptrace_traceme(9), smack_syslog(9), smack_sb_alloc_security(9), smack_fs_context_submount(9), smack_fs_context_dup(9), smack_fs_context_parse_param(9), smack_set_mnt_opts(9), smack_sb_statfs(9), smack_bprm_creds_for_exec(9), smack_inode_alloc_security(9), smk_rule_transmutes(9), smack_inode_init_security(9), smack_inode_link(9), smack_inode_unlink(9), smack_inode_rmdir(9), smack_inode_rename(9), smack_inode_permission(9), smack_inode_setattr(9), smack_inode_getattr(9), smack_inode_xattr_skipcap(9), smack_inode_setxattr(9), smack_inode_post_setxattr(9), smack_inode_getxattr(9), smack_inode_removexattr(9), smack_inode_set_acl(9), smack_inode_get_acl(9), smack_inode_remove_acl(9), smack_inode_getsecurity(9), smack_inode_listsecurity(9), smack_inode_getlsmprop(9), smack_file_alloc_security(9), smack_file_ioctl(9), smack_file_lock(9), smack_file_fcntl(9), smack_mmap_file(9), smack_file_set_fowner(9), smack_file_send_sigiotask(9), smack_file_receive(9), smack_file_open(9), smack_cred_alloc_blank(9), smack_cred_free(9), smack_cred_prepare(9), smack_cred_transfer(9), smack_cred_getsecid(9), smack_cred_getlsmprop(9), smack_kernel_act_as(9), smack_kernel_create_files_as(9), smk_curacc_on_task(9), smack_task_setpgid(9), smack_task_getpgid(9), smack_task_getsid(9), smack_current_getlsmprop_subj(9), smack_task_getlsmprop_obj(9), smack_task_setnice(9), smack_task_setioprio(9), smack_task_getioprio(9), smack_task_setscheduler(9), smack_task_getscheduler(9), smack_task_movememory(9), smack_task_kill(9), smack_task_to_inode(9), smack_sk_alloc_security(9), smack_sk_free_security(9), smack_sk_clone_security(9), smack_ipv4host_label(9), smack_ipv6host_label(9), smack_netlbl_add(9), smack_netlbl_delete(9), smk_ipv4_check(9), smk_ipv6_check(9), smk_ipv6_port_label(9), smk_ipv6_port_check(9), smack_inode_setsecurity(9), smack_socket_post_create(9), smack_socket_socketpair(9), smack_socket_bind(9), smack_socket_connect(9), smack_flags_to_may(9), smack_msg_msg_alloc_security(9), smack_of_ipc(9), smack_ipc_alloc_security(9), smk_curacc_shm(9), smack_shm_associate(9), smack_shm_shmctl(9), smack_shm_shmat(9), smk_curacc_sem(9), smack_sem_associate(9), smack_sem_semctl(9), smack_sem_semop(9), smk_tskacc_msq(9), smk_curacc_msq(9), smack_msg_queue_associate(9), smack_msg_queue_msgctl(9), smack_msg_queue_msgsnd(9), smack_msg_queue_msgrcv(9), smack_ipc_permission(9), smack_ipc_getlsmprop(9), smack_d_instantiate(9), smack_getselfattr(9), smack_getprocattr(9), do_setattr(9), smack_setselfattr(9), smack_setprocattr(9), smack_unix_stream_connect(9), smack_unix_may_send(9), smack_socket_sendmsg(9), smack_from_secattr(9), smack_from_skb(9), smack_from_netlbl(9), smack_socket_sock_rcv_skb(9), smack_socket_getpeersec_stream(9), smack_socket_getpeersec_dgram(9), smack_inet_conn_request(9), smack_key_alloc(9), smack_key_permission(9), smack_watch_key(9), smack_post_notification(9), smack_audit_rule_init(9), smack_audit_rule_known(9), smack_audit_rule_match(9), smack_ismaclabel(9), smack_to_secctx(9), smack_secid_to_secctx(9), smack_lsmprop_to_secctx(9), smack_secctx_to_secid(9), smack_uring_override_creds(9), smack_uring_sqpoll(9), smack_uring_cmd(9), smack_init(9).

and that’s the whole page, bestie. source/version: ./security/smack · date: October 2026 🎀💜