d_inode(9)

💅 d_inode(9) — actual inode, coming right up ✨

okay so this page lives in the Kernel API Manual, and it's about one tiny helper that's lowkey iconic 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

d_inode — get the actual inode of this dentry 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct inode * d_inode (const struct dentry *dentry );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dentry — the dentry you're querying, bestie 🔍

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This is the helper that normal filesystems should use to get at their own inodes in their own dentries and ignore the layering superimposed upon them. That's the whole vibe: your fs, your dentries, your inodes, no extra layers invited to the group chat 💅

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./include/linux/dcache.h has the friend group:

• dget_dlock(9)
• dget(9)
• d_unhashed(9)
• d_really_is_negative(9)
• d_really_is_positive(9)
• d_inode_rcu(9)
• d_backing_inode(9)
• d_real(9)
• d_real_inode(9)

and that's the page, periodt 💀✨ source/version vibes: Kernel file ./include/linux, dated October 2026 🎀🫶