d_find_any_alias(9)

d_find_any_alias(9) 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for d_find_any_alias(9) — it's short, it's sweet, and it's lowkey iconic in the dentry-alias department 🦋✨ not me being obsessed with a tiny kernel function, but here we are 💖

💖 NAME 💖

d_find_any_alias — find any alias for a given inode

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct dentry * d_find_any_alias (struct inode *inode );

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• inode — inode to find an alias for

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the tea, fr fr: if any aliases exist for the given inode, d_find_any_alias takes and returns a reference for one of them. if no aliases exist, it returns NULL. that's the whole plot, bestie — no plot twists, no extra lore 😭💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the kernel file is ./fs/dcache.c, and the whole squad is:

• d_drop(9)
• dentry_kill(9)
• __move_to_shrink_list(9)
• d_find_alias(9)
• prune_dcache_sb(9)
• shrink_dcache_sb(9)
• enum d_walk_ret(9)
• d_walk(9)
• path_has_submounts(9)
• shrink_dcache_tree(9)
• d_invalidate(9)
• __d_alloc(9)
• d_alloc(9)
• d_alloc_pseudo(9)
• d_instantiate(9)
• d_obtain_alias(9)
• d_obtain_root(9)
• d_add_ci(9)
• d_same_name(9)
• __d_lookup_rcu(9)
• d_lookup(9)
• __d_lookup(9)
• d_hash_and_lookup(9)
• d_delete(9)
• d_rehash(9)
• d_add(9)
• d_ancestor(9)
• d_splice_alias(9)
• is_subdir(9)

xoxo, your kernel bestie 🫶 — this page came from ./fs and the date on it is October 2026, and yes, it's still d_find_any_alias(9) szn 🎀💅⭐