tomoyo_check_mkdev_acl(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is tomoyo_check_mkdev_acl(9) — a page straight out of the Kernel API Manual — and it checks permission for the path number number number operation. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is right here, no cap:

bool tomoyo_check_mkdev_acl (struct tomoyo_request_info *r , const
       struct tomoyo_acl_info *ptr );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• r — pointer to "struct tomoyo_request_info" 🫶
• ptr — pointer to "struct tomoyo_acl_info" 🌸

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this one is lowkey simple: it returns true if granted, and false otherwise. literally that's it, and that's iconic. 💖

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/file.c is right there with the squad, plus all of these:

• tomoyo_put_name_union(9)
• tomoyo_compare_name_union(9)
• tomoyo_put_number_union(9)
• tomoyo_compare_number_union(9)
• tomoyo_add_slash(9)
• tomoyo_get_realpath(9)
• tomoyo_audit_path_log(9)
• tomoyo_audit_path2_log(9)
• tomoyo_audit_mkdev_log(9)
• tomoyo_audit_path_number_log(9)
• tomoyo_check_path_acl(9)
• tomoyo_check_path_number_acl(9)
• tomoyo_check_path2_acl(9)
• tomoyo_same_path_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_path_acl(9)
• tomoyo_update_path_acl(9)
• tomoyo_same_mkdev_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_mkdev_acl(9)
• tomoyo_update_mkdev_acl(9)
• tomoyo_same_path2_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_path2_acl(9)
• tomoyo_update_path2_acl(9)
• tomoyo_path_permission(9)
• tomoyo_execute_permission(9)
• tomoyo_same_path_number_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_path_number_acl(9)
• tomoyo_update_path_number_acl(9)
• tomoyo_path_number_perm(9)
• tomoyo_check_open_permission(9)
• tomoyo_path_perm(9)
• tomoyo_mkdev_perm(9)
• tomoyo_path2_perm(9)
• tomoyo_same_mount_acl(9)
• tomoyo_update_mount_acl(9)
• tomoyo_write_file(9)

source/version: ./security/tomoyo · date: October 2026 — mwah, bestie 💋🎀