drop_last_node(9)

💅 drop_last_node(9) — Kernel API Manual, bestie 💅

okay so this is the drop_last_node(9) page, and it's giving “tiny helper function with main character energy.” Slay. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

drop_last_node — drop the last node. Literally that. No cap. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void drop_last_node (struct ubifs_scan_leb *sleb , int *offs );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sleb — the scanned LEB information, bestie. That’s the info coming in. 💅
• offs — this is where the offset of dropped nodes is returned. It comes back out through here. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so drop_last_node is a helper function for ubifs_recover_leb, and what it does is drop the last node of the scanned LEB. That’s the whole vibe. It’s a little support-system icon for recovery — lowkey essential, highkey underrated. 💜

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

Kernel file ./fs/ubifs/recovery.c is where this whole friend group lives:

• is_empty(9)
• first_non_ff(9)
• get_master_node(9)
• write_rcvrd_mst_node(9)
• ubifs_recover_master_node(9)
• ubifs_write_rcvrd_mst_node(9)
• is_last_write(9)
• clean_buf(9)
• no_more_nodes(9)
• fix_unclean_leb(9)
• drop_last_group(9)
• ubifs_recover_leb(9)
• get_cs_sqnum(9)
• ubifs_recover_log_leb(9)
• recover_head(9)
• ubifs_recover_inl_heads(9)
• clean_an_unclean_leb(9)
• ubifs_clean_lebs(9)
• grab_empty_leb(9)
• ubifs_rcvry_gc_commit(9)
• struct size_entry(9)
• add_ino(9)
• find_ino(9)
• remove_ino(9)
• ubifs_destroy_size_tree(9)
• ubifs_recover_size_accum(9)
• fix_size_in_place(9)
• inode_fix_size(9)
• ubifs_recover_size(9)

mwah 💋 source/version is ./fs/ubifs, date is October 2026, and this whole iconic little manual is drop_last_node(9). bye bestie! 🫶✨