tomoyo_check_unix_address(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is tomoyo_check_unix_address(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally the function that checks permission for a unix domain socket's operation. slay 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tomoyo_check_unix_address (struct sockaddr *addr , const unsigned int addr_len , struct tomoyo_addr_info *address );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• addr — pointer to "struct sockaddr". yes, that exact type, no cap.
• addr_len — size of addr.
• address — pointer to "struct tomoyo_addr_info".

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Returns 0 on success, negative value otherwise. that's the whole vibe fr fr — 0 means success, negative means not success. periodt.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie, go read these too, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/network.c
• tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union(9)
• tomoyo_print_ipv4(9)
• tomoyo_print_ipv6(9)
• tomoyo_print_ip(9)
• tomoyo_same_inet_acl(9)
• tomoyo_same_unix_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_inet_acl(9)
• tomoyo_merge_unix_acl(9)
• tomoyo_write_inet_network(9)
• tomoyo_write_unix_network(9)
• tomoyo_audit_net_log(9)
• tomoyo_audit_inet_log(9)
• tomoyo_audit_unix_log(9)
• tomoyo_check_inet_acl(9)
• tomoyo_check_unix_acl(9)
• tomoyo_inet_entry(9)
• tomoyo_check_inet_address(9)
• tomoyo_unix_entry(9)
• tomoyo_kernel_service(9)
• tomoyo_sock_family(9)
• tomoyo_socket_listen_permission(9)
• tomoyo_socket_connect_permission(9)
• tomoyo_socket_bind_permission(9)
• tomoyo_socket_sendmsg_permission(9)

mwah 💋 bye bestie 🫶 this page is from source/version ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it lives at tomoyo_check_unix_address(9) — iconic, no notes 💖