smk_open_load_self(9)

💅 smk_open_load_self(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for smk_open_load_self(9) — yes the whole manual is called that, don't ask, it's giving official ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

smk_open_load_self — literally the open() for /smack/load-self2 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int smk_open_load_self (struct inode *inode , struct file *file );

that's the whole vibe, no cap 🔥

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• inode — the inode structure representing the file 💖
• file — the "load" file pointer ⭐

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so for reading, you're gonna use the load_seq_* seq_file reading operations. that's it, that's the tea 🍓

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file ./security/smack/smackfs.c and honestly the whole friend group 💜:

• smk_netlabel_audit_set(9), smk_set_access(9), smk_perm_from_str(9), smk_fill_rule(9), smk_parse_rule(9), smk_parse_long_rule(9), smk_write_rules_list(9)
• smk_open_load(9), smk_write_load(9), smk_cipso_doi(9), smk_unlbl_ambient(9)
• smk_open_cipso(9), smk_set_cipso(9), smk_write_cipso(9), smk_open_cipso2(9), smk_write_cipso2(9)
• smk_open_net4addr(9), smk_net4addr_insert(9), smk_write_net4addr(9), smk_open_net6addr(9), smk_net6addr_insert(9), smk_write_net6addr(9)
• smk_read_doi(9), smk_write_doi(9), smk_read_cipso_auto_level(9), smk_write_cipso_auto_level(9), smk_read_ambient(9), smk_write_ambient(9)
• smk_list_swap_rcu(9), smk_parse_label_list(9), smk_destroy_label_list(9), smk_write_onlycap(9), smk_read_unconfined(9), smk_write_unconfined(9)
• smk_read_logging(9), smk_write_logging(9), smk_write_load_self(9), smk_user_access(9), smk_write_access(9)
• smk_open_load2(9), smk_write_load2(9), smk_open_load_self2(9), smk_write_load_self2(9), smk_write_access2(9), smk_write_revoke_subj(9)
• smk_init_sysfs(9), smk_write_change_rule(9), smk_read_syslog(9), smk_write_syslog(9), smk_open_relabel_self(9), smk_write_relabel_self(9)
• smk_read_ptrace(9), smk_write_ptrace(9), smk_fill_super(9), smk_get_tree(9), smk_init_fs_context(9), init_smk_fs(9)

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🧚 and that's the whole page bestie, go read some seq_files, ily, bye 💅✨

shoutout to the source ./security/smack and the date October 2026 — iconic, timeless, no notes 🙈😭👑