smack_sb_alloc_security(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 smack_sb_alloc_security(9) — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

Okay bestie, buckle up 🎀 we're reading a kernel API manual page together — yes, the big scary one, no it's not that deep, and yes I'm gonna hold your hand through every single line. This one lives in the Kernel API Manual corner of the universe, so you know it's the real deal. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

smack_sb_alloc_security — allocate a superblock blob 🫶

Like, literally that's the whole job. It allocates a blob for the superblock. Simple queen behavior. 👑

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int smack_sb_alloc_security (struct super_block *sb );

That's it. That's the signature. Copy it exactly, don't get cute with it — the int up front, the struct super_block *sb in the parens, and yeah there's a lil space before that closing paren, keep it. 😭

🌈 ARGUMENTS 🌈

  • sb — the superblock that's getting the blob. That's the one. That's the whole argument. Give it the blob, bestie. 💖

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

So what does it actually do? It returns 0 on success, or -ENOMEM if it errors out. That's the entire vibe check, fr fr. Zero means we ate and left no crumbs; -ENOMEM means the memory situation said "not today" 💀.

No cap, that's the whole description. Sometimes the manpage is short because the function is short. Main character energy but make it minimal.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Okay so this is the part where the page just dumps the entire Smack family tree on you, and I'm not skipping a single one because every reference is a detail and details are sacred 🧚. The kernel file to look at is ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — that's where the whole squad lives. Here's everybody, in the exact order the page lists them:

Yeah. That's a lot of friends. It's giving family reunion where you don't remember half the cousins' names but you're still gonna say hi to all of them 💜.

Heads up bestie, these are all (9) section references and the paths and names are exact — if you're grepping for them, type them character for character, don't let autocorrect fumble the bag 🙈.

And that's the page!! Short little function, absolutely massive SEE ALSO, very "small but loud" energy 🍓. This gem comes out of ./security/smack, dated October 2026 — so go forth, allocate that blob, and slay ✨💅

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