uv_find_secret(9)

💅 uv_find_secret — from the Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, this one's about uv_find_secret(9) and it's honestly giving "detective but make it firmware" 🔍✨ it lives in the kernel API manual and it's here to help you look up secret metadata when all you've got is a secret id. no cap, that's the whole vibe.

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✨ NAME ✨

uv_find_secret — search secret metadata for a given secret id 🕵️‍♀️ literally what it says on the tin.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int uv_find_secret (const u8 secret_id[UV_SECRET_ID_LEN] , struct uv_secret_list *list , struct uv_secret_list_item_hdr *secret );

so you call it and it hands you back an int, icon behavior 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• secret_id — the search pattern 👀 this is your const u8 secret_id[UV_SECRET_ID_LEN], i.e. the thing you're hunting for.
• list — ephemeral buffer space 🫧 think scratch space that's not gonna stick around forever, so don't get attached.
• secret — output data, containing the secret's metadata 🎁 this is where the goods land, main character energy fr fr.

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💜 CONTEXT 💜

might sleep 😴 as in, this function is allowed to sleep — so mind where you're calling it from, bestie, don't do anything cursed.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./arch/s390/kernel/uv.c
• __make_folio_secure(9)
• s390_wiggle_split_folio(9)
• uv_retrieve_secret(9)

all of these are your little friends, go read them, iykyk 📚💖

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and that's the whole page, periodt 🫶 ok bye, this came from ./arch/s390/kernel, dated October 2026, and it's the one and only uv_find_secret(9) ⭐🎀