batadv_bla_process_claim(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

🦋 batadv_bla_process_claim(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, this one's from the Kernel API Manual (section 9, kernel-space girlies only 💅) and it's literally all about batadv_bla_process_claim — checking whether the frame you're holding is a claim frame and, if it is, processing it. iconic behavior honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

batadv_bla_process_claim — check if this is a claim frame, and process it 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool batadv_bla_process_claim (struct batadv_priv *bat_priv , struct
batadv_hard_iface *primary_if , struct sk_buff *skb );

like, returns a bool, takes three things, no cap. 🫶

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • bat_priv — the bat priv holding all the mesh interface info. it's giving "the main character struct" 👑
  • primary_if — the primary hard interface of this batman mesh interface. yes, this one, the primary one 🦋
  • skb — the frame that's getting checked. this is the one on trial, bestie 🙈

⚠️ DESCRIPTION ⚠️

Warning: this function may reallocate the skb data buffer via batadv_get_vid/...

and like, that's the whole thing you need to know, because any pointer into the skb data — think anything you got from skb->data or eth_hdr before you called this — must be considered invalid afterwards. literally do not trust it. 💀 you have to reacquire it. no stashing old pointers, that's not the vibe, that's a bug. ✨

🔥 RETURN 🔥

  • true — slay, it was a claim frame 🌈
  • false — nope, not a claim frame, and this is you telling the callee it can go ahead and use the frame on its own 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

that's a lot of cross-references and honestly? obsessed. go read them all, bestie, they're literally all in the BLA squad 🧚

mwah 💋 this page lives in ./net/batman-adv and the version/date stamp on it is October 2026 — yes, the future, and no, we're not explaining that. it's giving time traveler energy 🕰️✨ periodt.

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