tomoyo_path_link(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to tomoyo_path_link(9) from the Kernel API Manual 💖. This one is literally the target for security_path_link() — that's the whole vibe. No cap.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the signature, copy it exactly or the compiler will side-eye you 🙈:

       int tomoyo_path_link (struct dentry *old_dentry , const struct path
       *new_dir , struct dentry *new_dentry );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• old_dentry — pointer to struct dentry. 💅
• new_dir — pointer to struct path. 🦋
• new_dentry — pointer to struct dentry. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 on success, negative value otherwise. That's the tea ☕ — short, sweet, and fully the description.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c — and then the whole TOMOYO bestie lineup, in order, no skips:

• tomoyo_domain(9)
• tomoyo_cred_prepare(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_committed_creds(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_creds_for_exec(9)
• tomoyo_bprm_check_security(9)
• tomoyo_inode_getattr(9)
• tomoyo_path_truncate(9)
• tomoyo_file_truncate(9)
• tomoyo_path_unlink(9)
• tomoyo_path_mkdir(9)
• tomoyo_path_rmdir(9)
• tomoyo_path_symlink(9)
• tomoyo_path_mknod(9)
• tomoyo_path_rename(9)
• tomoyo_file_fcntl(9)
• tomoyo_file_open(9)
• tomoyo_file_ioctl(9)
• tomoyo_path_chmod(9)
• tomoyo_path_chown(9)
• tomoyo_path_chroot(9)
• tomoyo_sb_mount(9)
• tomoyo_sb_umount(9)
• tomoyo_sb_pivotroot(9)
• tomoyo_socket_listen(9)
• tomoyo_socket_connect(9)
• tomoyo_socket_bind(9)
• tomoyo_socket_sendmsg(9)
• tomoyo_task_alloc(9)
• tomoyo_task_free(9)
• tomoyo_init(9)

💌 Sign-off: source/version ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026 — tomoyo_path_link(9) is out. periodt. 💅