__in6_dev_get_safely(9)

🦋 NAME

__in6_dev_get_safely — ok so this one pulls the inet6_dev pointer out of a netdevice, but like… safely 💅

(this is all from the Kernel API Manual, bestie — kernel-internals girlie hours ✨)

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💖 SYNOPSIS

struct inet6_dev * __in6_dev_get_safely (const struct net_device *dev );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS

• dev — the network device you're grabbing it from. that's the whole argument, she's low maintenance 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION

So here's the tea: this is the safer version of __in6_dev_get. literally that's it, that's the flex 👑

ngl the "safely" in the name is doing a LOT of heavy lifting and honestly? iconic of her.

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🌈 SEE ALSO

• __in6_dev_get(9) — the unsafe one, the reckless one, the main character with no self-preservation 🫣
• __in6_dev_stats_get(9)
• in6_dev_get(9)
• and they all live in the kernel file ./include/net/addrconf.h 📁

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ok that's the whole page, no cap 🧚💜

little sign-off besties: this was brought to you by the Kernel API Manual, from ./include/net, dated October 2026. go forth and get your device pointers safely 🍓🌸