INIT_ERR_PTR(9)

🌸 INIT_ERR_PTR(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual page you didn't know you needed 🎀

okay bestie, buckle up, this is INIT_ERR_PTR from section 9 of the Kernel API Manual and it's literally a tiny little macro with main character energy 💅

✨ NAME ✨

INIT_ERR_PTR — init a const error pointer. that's it. that's the whole vibe 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

INIT_ERR_PTR (error );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• error — a negative error code. yes queen, it's gotta be negative, that's the whole point 🙈

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so it works exactly like ERR_PTR, no cap, but here's the slay: you can use this one to initialize static variables 🫶 that's the difference. that's the flex. ERR_PTR could never (well, it could, but not for statics, iykyk) ✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

okay so the whole squad is here, all from the kernel file ./include/linux/err.h:

• IS_ERR_VALUE(9)
• ERR_PTR(9)
• PTR_ERR(9)
• IS_ERR(9)
• IS_ERR_OR_NULL(9)
• ERR_CAST(9)
• PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(9)

like, they all live in the same file, they're literally a friend group 💖

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this lil icon comes from ./include/linux, October 2026, and it's giving vintage-but-make-it-fresh 👑 go forth and init your const error pointers responsibly, bestie 🌈⭐