smk_write_access(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Hii bestie 💖, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for smk_write_access. What does she do? She handles an access check transaction. That's the whole NAME-section tea, periodt ✨.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

       ssize_t smk_write_access (struct file *file , const char __user *buf ,
       size_t count , loff_t *ppos );

The signature is literally right there, no cap — keep the spacing and commas exactly as written, she’s iconic like that 💅.

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• file — file pointer. Yep, a file pointer, main character energy 🫶.
• buf — data from user space. User-space data is pulling up to the function, okay? ✨
• count — bytes sent. The byte count, slay 💖.
• ppos — where to start - must be 0. Not “maybe 0,” not “spicy 0,” bestie: must be 0 🚨.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/smack/smackfs.c, plus the whole SEE ALSO crew — same order, no skips, iykyk:

• 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_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)

Source/version: ./security/smack · date: October 2026 — bye bestie, stay curious and stay slay 💅✨