smack_task_movememory(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to smack_task_movememory(9) — the Kernel API Manual page for smack_task_movememory, aka the Smack check on moving memory ✨

that's the whole name. short, sweet, and it's giving "i do one thing and i do it well" energy 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int smack_task_movememory (struct task_struct *p );

like... that's the entire signature, no cap. one function, one argument, one dream 🦋

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• p — the task object 💅 that's it. that's the whole guest list. it's a struct task_struct * and it's the task we're checking on, periodt.

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so the entire personality of this function is this one line, and honestly? iconic:

Return 0 if write access is permitted

that's it. that's the vibe check 🔥 it's a Smack check on moving memory, and if write access is allowed you get a 0 back. slay 💜

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

first up, the source file itself lives right here — ./security/smack/smack_lsm.c — and it's got so many friends. the whole squad, fr fr, no one left out 👑

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_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_inet_csk_clone(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)

like, that's a whole extended family reunion and you're invited 🫶 iykyk 💫

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and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this little beauty comes to you from ./security/smack, dated October 2026 — go forth and check that memory-moving write access, bestie, and stan Smack for me 🌈👑💖