smack_populate_secattr(9)

💅 smack_populate_secattr 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for smack_populate_secattr — yes that name is a whole mouthful, yes it's iconic, and yes we're gonna get through it together 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

smack_populate_secattr — literally just fills in the smack_known netlabel information. that's the whole job. she's a one-task queen 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int smack_populate_secattr (struct smack_known *skp );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• skp — pointer to the structure to fill 💖 like, this is the thing you're handing her so she can do her thing. give her the struct, she fills it, we move on.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: this function populates the netlabel secattr structure for a Smack label. that's it, that's the plot ✨

And the return? She returns 0 unless creating the category mapping fails. so like — zero is the good ending, and if the category mapping doesn't come together, that's when things go sideways 😭

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

okay this list is LONG, so buckle up, we're doing a whole friend-group roll call 💅

Kernel file ./security/smack/smack_access.c and its besties:

• smk_access_entry(9)
• smk_access(9)
• smk_tskacc(9)
• smk_curacc(9)
• smack_str_from_perm(9)
• smack_log_callback(9)
• smack_log(9)
• smk_insert_entry(9)
• smk_find_entry(9)
• smk_parse_label_len(9)
• smk_parse_smack(9)
• smk_netlbl_mls(9)
• smk_import_entry(9)
• smk_import_valid_label(9)
• smack_from_secid(9)
• smack_privileged_cred(9)
• smack_privileged(9)

ngl if you're reading this page you probably already know half these functions. that's your sign to go read the other half. iykyk 🧚

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💜 sign-off 💜

this little cutie lives over in ./security/smack, and the page itself is dated October 2026 — so yeah, she's from the future and she's still slaying. periodt. 🌈⭐

no cap, that's the whole page. go fill some secattrs, bestie. 💖