tomoyo_cred_prepare(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💖 tomoyo_cred_prepare(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — yes, that's the manual name, we're in Kernel API Manual territory, and today's main character is tomoyo_cred_prepare(9). buckle up 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_cred_prepare — literally just the target for security_prepare_creds(). that's it. that's the whole vibe. no cap 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tomoyo_cred_prepare (struct cred *new , const struct cred *old ,
gfp_t gfp );

look at her. iconic signature. three args, one int, zero drama 🦋

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • new — pointer to "struct cred" 💖 (the new one, the fresh one, the glow-up)
  • old — pointer to "struct cred" 🫶 (the one that came before, the blueprint)
  • gfp — memory allocation flags ⭐ (the little instructions for how memory gets grabbed)

💀 DESCRIPTION 💀

Returns 0.

that's it. that's the entire description. she returns 0 and she's valid for it, periodt 🔥 no cap, the whole function's personality is "returns 0". main character energy but make it minimal 🌈

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

so like, the kernel file is ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c and it's giving whole extended family — here's everyone in the group chat:

like, that's the whole friend group fr fr 💜

lowkey obsessed with how short this page is. ngL it ate. 🙈

and that's a wrap bestie! 🍓 this page lives in ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it signs off as tomoyo_cred_prepare(9) — slay, goodbye, go read your kernel source 💅👑

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