tomoyo_path_mknod(9)

🎀 tomoyo_path_mknod 🎀

okay bestie, this one is from the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — folding that manual-name moment right in here so we don't do a boring header repeat, periodt. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tomoyo_path_mknod — Target for security_path_mknod().

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int tomoyo_path_mknod (const struct path *parent , struct dentry *dentry
       , umode_t mode , unsigned int dev );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• parent — pointer to "struct path". 🫶
• dentry — pointer to "struct dentry". 🎀
• mode — DAC permission mode. 💅
• dev — device attributes. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the return vibe check is literally this: it returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise. that's the whole description, bestie — short, sweet, and to the point. 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c — yes, that exact path, no cap. and here's the whole reference crew, all iconic, all present:

• 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_link(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)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 — source/version is ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and the page is tomoyo_path_mknod(9). mwah! 💖