alloc_wbufs(9)

🎀 alloc_wbufs(9) 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this page is all about alloc_wbufs, and it's lowkey a little allocation icon 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

alloc_wbufs — allocate write-buffers. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int alloc_wbufs (struct ubifs_info *c );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• c — the UBIFS file-system description object. yes, that's the whole argument, and it's carrying the plot 💖

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this helper function literally allocates and initializes UBIFS write-buffers. that's it, that's the job, and it ate ✨

it returns zero in case of success and -ENOMEM in case of failure. periodt. 🔥

-ENOMEM is the failure value here — no cap, that's the return contract 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/super.c is linked, and these are all the see-also besties:

• validate_inode(9)
• init_constants_early(9)
• bud_wbuf_callback(9)
• take_gc_lnum(9)
• free_wbufs(9)
• free_orphans(9)
• free_buds(9)
• check_volume_empty(9)
• ubifs_parse_param(9)
• destroy_journal(9)
• bu_init(9)
• check_free_space(9)
• mount_ubifs(9)
• ubifs_umount(9)
• ubifs_remount_rw(9)
• ubifs_remount_ro(9)
• open_ubi(9)

signed, sealed, and sourced from ./fs/ubifs — October 2026 — alloc_wbufs(9) out! bye bestie 💜🦋