yama_ptracer_del(9)

💅 yama_ptracer_del(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual page for yama_ptracer_del(9) and it is lowkey giving “cleanup crew, but make it kernel” ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

yama_ptracer_del — remove exceptions related to the given tasks 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void yama_ptracer_del (struct task_struct *tracer , struct task_struct *tracee );

Like, that's the whole signature. No cap. 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• tracer — remove any relation where the tracer task matches 💖
• tracee — remove any relation where the tracee task matches 🎀

Both args are struct task_struct *, and each one removes relations that match it. Iconic. 🌟

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file: ./security/yama/yama_lsm.c — that's where the lore lives 👑

• yama_relation_cleanup(9)
• yama_ptracer_add(9)
• yama_task_free(9)
• yama_task_prctl(9)
• task_is_descendant(9)
• ptracer_exception_found(9)
• yama_ptrace_access_check(9)
• yama_ptrace_traceme(9)

bestie don't skip the SEE ALSO squad, iykyk 🌈

Sign-off: source/version ./security/yama, date October 2026, and the footer is still serving yama_ptracer_del(9) — periodt. 💋