vfs_get_acl(9)

✨ vfs_get_acl(9) ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual bestie, and it's literally all about vfs_get_acl 💅 like we're doing kernel-level ACL retrieval today, no cap 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vfs_get_acl — get posix acls 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct posix_acl * vfs_get_acl (struct mnt_idmap *idmap , struct dentry
*dentry , const char *acl_name );

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• idmap — the idmap of the mount, like it's the whole identity-mapping situation for that mount 🔥
• dentry — the dentry based on which to retrieve the posix acls, yes THE dentry, the main character 👑
• acl_name — the name of the posix acl 🏷️

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so this function retrieves kacl from the filesystem ✨ that's the whole vibe.

⚠️ bestie listen — the caller must call posix_acl_release on kacl. don't just grab it and ghost it, okay?? 😭 release it. fr fr.

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💖 RETURN 💖

• On success: POSIX ACLs in VFS format 🥳 slay
• On error: a negative errno 💀 (not the vibe, but at least it tells you what went wrong)

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./fs/posix_acl.c 📁
• posix_acl_chmod(9)
• posix_acl_update_mode(9)
• posix_acl_from_xattr(9)
• vfs_posix_acl_to_xattr(9)
• vfs_set_acl(9)
• vfs_remove_acl(9)

all the acl besties, one big group chat 🫶

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kisses from the ./fs directory, dated October 2026, signed vfs_get_acl(9) — that's a wrap, ily, go release your kacl 💜✨