ecryptfs_destroy_inode(9)

💅 ecryptfs_destroy_inode(9) — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up edition of the ecryptfs_destroy_inode page, from the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one's short but she's important, so pay attention 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ecryptfs_destroy_inode —

ngl the original page leaves this bit blank after the dash, so like… that's it, that's the name section 💀 no description, no nothing. iconique in its minimalism, honestly.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ecryptfs_destroy_inode (struct inode *inode );

that's the whole signature, no cap 🎀

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• inode — the ecryptfs inode in question, your main character for this function 💜

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what does she actually do? bestie, this function gets called during the final destruction of the inode — like the very last goodbye, the closing credits, the last dance 😭

and here's the tea: all allocation of memory related to the inode gets released right here in this function, and that includes the allocated memory inside the crypt_stat struct 🌈 all of it. every last byte. she's thorough like that 💅

and the best part? there should be no chance that this deallocation will be missed 👑 like, the memory cleanup here is not going to ghost you. it shows up. it does the work. periodt. ✨

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./fs/ecryptfs/super.c
• ecryptfs_alloc_inode(9)
• ecryptfs_statfs(9)
• ecryptfs_evict_inode(9)

go read those next, iykyk 💀📚

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aaaaand that's the page! 🍓 sign-off time: this masterpiece lives in ./fs/ecryptfs, dated October 2026, and it's part of the Kernel API Manual — go off, inode destroyer ⭐💖