batadv_recv_unicast_packet(9)

💌 batadv_recv_unicast_packet(9) — like, the Kernel API Manual entry, bestie

okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, it's giving networking, and a unicast packet just rolled up. this little function is the one who answers the door 🚪✨

✨ NAME ✨

batadv_recv_unicast_packet — literally just Process incoming unicast packet. that's the whole job. no cap, that's it 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int batadv_recv_unicast_packet (struct sk_buff *skb , struct
       batadv_hard_iface *recv_if );

it hands back an int, take it or leave it 🫶

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• skb — inbound packet buffer, the main character of this whole operation 📦
• recv_if — the incoming hard interface, aka the door it came through 🚪

🌸 RETURN 🌸

• NET_RX_SUCCESS — we ate, no crumbs, success 🍓
• NET_RX_DROP — it's giving failure, so the packet gets dropped 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

bestie the whole batman-adv routing friend group shows up here, and honestly? iconic. it lives in the kernel file ./net/batman-adv/routing.c 🔥

• _batadv_update_route(9)
• batadv_update_route(9)
• batadv_window_protected(9)
• batadv_check_management_packet(9)
• batadv_skb_decrement_ttl(9)
• batadv_recv_my_icmp_packet(9)
• batadv_recv_icmp_ttl_exceeded(9)
• batadv_recv_icmp_packet(9)
• batadv_check_unicast_packet(9)
• batadv_last_bonding_get(9)
• batadv_last_bonding_replace(9)
• batadv_find_router(9)
• batadv_route_unicast_packet(9)
• batadv_reroute_unicast_packet(9)
• batadv_check_unicast_ttvn(9)
• batadv_recv_unhandled_unicast_packet(9)
• batadv_recv_unicast_tvlv(9)
• batadv_recv_frag_packet(9)
• batadv_recv_bcast_packet(9)
• batadv_recv_mcast_packet(9)

and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this one ships out of ./net/batman-adv in October 2026, filed under batadv_recv_unicast_packet(9) — go read the source, iykyk 💜🧚