batadv_forw_packet_free(9)

💅 NAME

batadv_forw_packet_free — okay so this is the function that frees a forwarding packet, bestie, that's literally the whole vibe ✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

void batadv_forw_packet_free (struct batadv_forw_packet *forw_packet ,
bool dropped );

So yeah, it returns void — nothing comes back out, no return value era, she just does her thing and dips 💅 The two things you gotta hand her are forw_packet and dropped, and yes there's a comma situation between them, don't come for me, that's just how it's written 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS

• forw_packet — the packet you're freeing, queen. This is the one getting the goodbye hug 👋 Like, the actual packet to free.
• dropped — a bool that tells everyone why we're freeing it — specifically, whether the packet is freed because it is dropped. So it's the receipts for the reason, iykyk 🙈

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🌸 DESCRIPTION

This frees a forwarding packet and releases any resources it might have claimed. That's it, that's the whole job — clean up, hand back whatever that packet was holding onto, no loose ends left behind, no cap 💖

Like, she takes the packet, frees it, and makes sure every resource it might have claimed gets let go too. Tidy queen behavior, honestly 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO

The whole friend group 🫶 — all of these live in the kernel file ./net/batman-adv/send.c:

• batadv_send_skb_packet(9)
• batadv_send_broadcast_skb(9)
• batadv_send_unicast_skb(9)
• batadv_send_skb_to_orig(9)
• batadv_send_skb_push_fill_unicast(9)
• batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast(9)
• batadv_send_skb_prepare_unicast_4addr(9)
• batadv_send_skb_unicast(9)
• batadv_send_skb_via_tt_generic(9)
• batadv_send_skb_via_gw(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_alloc(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_was_stolen(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_steal(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_list_steal(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_list_free(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_queue(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_bcast_queue(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_ogmv1_queue(9)
• batadv_forw_bcast_packet_to_list(9)
• batadv_forw_bcast_packet_if(9)
• batadv_send_no_broadcast(9)
• __batadv_forw_bcast_packet(9)
• batadv_forw_bcast_packet(9)
• batadv_send_bcast_packet(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_bcasts_left(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_bcasts_dec(9)
• batadv_forw_packet_is_rebroadcast(9)
• batadv_send_outstanding_bcast_packet(9)
• batadv_purge_outstanding_packets(9)

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✨ and that's the page, bestie ✨ This whole little masterpiece is from ./net/batman-adv, dated October 2026, and it's part of the Kernel API Manual 🧚 Go off, kernel docs, you ate 💅🔥