smk_open_relabel_self(9)

💅 smk_open_relabel_self(9) — the Kernel API Manual glow-up 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the <pink>smk_open_relabel_self</pink> page, straight out of the Kernel API Manual. it's a tiny one but it's iconic, and honestly? it's giving "small function, big responsibility." let's get into it ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

smk_open_relabel_self — literally the open() for /smack/relabel-self 🫶

like. that's the whole vibe. it's the open handler. it opens the thing. slay.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

yeah that's it, that's the signature, no cap 💅

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — the inode structure representing the file 👑 (your classic "which file are we even talking about" situation)
• file — the "relabel-self" file pointer 🎀 (this one's the actual file object, bestie)

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⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

okay so here's the whole deal: this function connects our relabel_self_seq_* operations with the /smack/relabel-self file_operations 🔥

that's it. that's the job. it's the little hookup artist that wires the seq ops into the file ops so the file actually does stuff when you open it. lowkey essential, highkey underrated. periodt 💜

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the whole extended friend group 🫶 — go say hi:

• 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_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_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)

also the kernel file itself lives at ./security/smack/smackfs.c 🧚 if you wanna go read the source, that's where the magic happens, iykyk 💖

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no warnings, no bugs, no exit statuses on this page — it's a clean little page and we respect that 🙈

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! mwah 💋 this iconic lil number comes to you from ./security/smack, dated October 2026, and its name is — say it with me — smk_open_relabel_self(9) 🌟👑💅