ecryptfs_alloc_inode(9)

💅 ecryptfs_alloc_inode(9) — Kernel API Manual 🎀

okay so bestie, listen up, we're in the Kernel API Manual today and the vibe is inode creation. no cap, this one's short but iconic ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ecryptfs_alloc_inode — literally just allocate an ecryptfs inode, that's the whole job 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct inode * ecryptfs_alloc_inode (struct super_block *sb );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• sb — pointer to the ecryptfs super block. that's it, that's the whole argument list, we love a minimal queen 👑

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

So this is the function that gets called to bring an inode into existence — like, manifesting it, main character energy, ✨poof✨ you exist now.

Only handle allocation here, okay? Setting up structures? That's ecryptfs_read_inode's gig, not yours. And why, you ask? Because the kernel, between now and then, will 0 out the private data pointer 💀 like it literally wipes it. so any cute little setup you did early would just get deleted. tragic. don't do it.

What it gives you back: a pointer to a newly allocated inode, or NULL otherwise. simple as that 🫶

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./fs/ecryptfs/super.c, plus these besties:

• ecryptfs_destroy_inode(9)
• ecryptfs_statfs(9)
• ecryptfs_evict_inode(9)

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okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 this little gem lives over in ./fs/ecryptfs, dated October 2026, and it's giving "short but essential" — go read the SEE ALSOs, iykyk 🌈⭐💜