tomoyo_socket_listen(9)

🎀 tomoyo_socket_listen(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and the main character is tomoyo_socket_listen(9) — literally the permission check for listen(). it’s short, it’s sweet, and it’s giving “security hook with main character energy.” 💅

✨ NAME ✨

tomoyo_socket_listen — check permission for listen(). no cap, that’s the whole name vibe.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int tomoyo_socket_listen (struct socket *sock , int backlog );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• sock — pointer to struct socket. yes, that exact struct, keep it iconic.
• backlog — backlog parameter. the parameter called backlog, periodt.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns 0 on success, and a negative value otherwise. that’s the return contract, fr fr. a 0 is the slay ✅; anything negative is the “not it” 😭.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file: ./security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c

also the whole TOMOYO bestie lineup:

• 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_connect(9)
• tomoyo_socket_bind(9)
• tomoyo_socket_sendmsg(9)
• tomoyo_task_alloc(9)
• tomoyo_task_free(9)
• tomoyo_init(9)

mwah 💋 — brought to you by the source path ./security/tomoyo, dated October 2026, and filed under tomoyo_socket_listen(9). that’s the whole page, bestie 🫶