tomoyo_execute_permission(9)

💅 tomoyo_execute_permission(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual corner of the group chat ✨ this one is all about tomoyo_execute_permission — the permission-checker for execute operation, and yes she has main character energy.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_execute_permission — check permission for execute operation. periodt 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature, exactly as she comes:

int tomoyo_execute_permission (struct tomoyo_request_info *r , const
       struct tomoyo_path_info *filename );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• r — pointer to "struct tomoyo_request_info".
• filename — filename to check.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so the function returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise — that's the whole mood. 💖

and bestie, the caller holds tomoyo_read_lock. no cap, that's part of the setup. 🫶

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the whole friend group is linked here — kernel file ./security/tomoyo/file.c plus all these icons:

• 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_check_mkdev_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_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)

mwah 💖 this page came from ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and it's all about tomoyo_execute_permission(9) — bye bestie 🫶