smk_open_load_self2(9)

💅 smk_open_load_self2 — a Kernel API Manual moment

okay so bestie, welcome to the smk_open_load_self2(9) page 🎀 this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and it's honestly a short little baddie — she's the open() hook for /smack/load-self2, and that's the whole vibe.

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✨ NAME ✨

smk_open_load_self2 — literally the open() for /smack/load-self2 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int smk_open_load_self2 (struct inode *inode , struct file *file );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• inode — the inode structure representing the file 👑
• file — the "load" file pointer, she's right there

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So for reading, you use the load_seq_* seq_file reading operations. That's it, that's the whole thing — she opens, the seq_file machinery does the reading, slay ✨

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

the whole smack fam showed up, no cap 😭 and yes we're listing every single one, iykyk:

• the Kernel file ./security/smack/smackfs.c
• 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_open_load_self(9)
• smk_write_load_self(9)
• smk_user_access(9)
• smk_write_access(9)
• smk_open_load2(9)
• smk_write_load2(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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okay that's the whole page, go read the seq_file docs if you wanna know what happens after open, bestie 🫶

🌈 mwah 💋 this little page comes from ./security/smack, dated October 2026, and that's the vibe check, periodt 💜