tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union(9)

💅 tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, section 9 of the manual, and you meet tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union. That's the icon we're talking about today. She parses an IP address. That's the whole vibe. ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union — parse an IP address, that's it, that's the job 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union (struct tomoyo_acl_param *param , struct
tomoyo_ipaddr_union *ptr );

Like, she takes two pointers and hands you back a bool. Clean. Minimal. Main character energy ngl 👑

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• param — pointer to struct tomoyo_acl_param. Your ACL param situation, she's holding it 🫶
• ptr — pointer to struct tomoyo_ipaddr_union. This is where the IP address union lives, bestie.

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

Returns true on success, false otherwise. Periodt. That's the whole description. Not every icon needs a paragraph 💅

lowkey the most straightforward function in the whole TOMOYO family and I respect her for it fr fr

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/network.c — go read her, she's where all the lore lives 🧚

And the whole friend group, all of them, no cap, every single one:

• 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_check_unix_address(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)

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💜 from ./security/tomoyo (that's the source, bestie), dated October 2026, and yes she's filed under tomoyo_parse_ipaddr_union(9) — iykyk 🌟