tomoyo_socket_bind(9)

🎀 tomoyo_socket_bind(9) 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this page is literally all about tomoyo_socket_bind, and it's giving "small but important permission-check moment" energy. 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_socket_bind — check permission for bind().

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int tomoyo_socket_bind (struct socket *sock , struct sockaddr *addr ,
       int addr_len );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• sock — pointer to struct socket. That's the whole assignment, bestie.
• addr — pointer to struct sockaddr. Okay, iconic.
• addr_len — size of addr. Noted and slayed. ✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise. That's it — short, sweet, and lowkey doing its job. 🫶

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🔗 SEE ALSO 🔗

The kernel file is ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c, and the see-also squad is right here — no cap, every single one:

• 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_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_sendmsg(9)
• tomoyo_task_alloc(9)
• tomoyo_task_free(9)
• tomoyo_init(9)

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Signed off from ./security/tomoyo, stamped October 2026, and filed under tomoyo_socket_bind(9). Bye bestie — stay permission-checked and slay 💜🦋