smk_write_load2(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so this is smk_write_load2(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally the write() for /smack/load2 💅. That's the name, that's the vibe, no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

ssize_t smk_write_load2 (struct file *file , const char __user *buf ,
       size_t count , loff_t *ppos );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• file — file pointer, not actually used 🙈 like it's just there for the aesthetic
• buf — where to get the data from
• count — bytes sent
• ppos — where to start — must be 0, periodt

lowkey important: ppos has to be 0, fr fr — that's not a suggestion, bestie.

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./security/smack/smackfs.c — and the whole squad is here, bestie. This list ate and left no crumbs 💖:

• 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_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)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 💖 source/version: ./security/smack, date: October 2026 ✨