end_creating_path(9)

🌸 end_creating_path(9) 🌸

okay so this is the Kernel API Manual page for end_creating_path, and it is literally the cleanup bestie for start_creating_path(). lowkey essential, no cap. 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

end_creating_path — finish a code section started by start_creating_path(). periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature is giving “small function, big cleanup energy”:

       void end_creating_path (const struct path *path , struct dentry *dentry
       );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• path — the path instantiated by start_creating_path. yes bestie, that exact one. 🦋
• dentry — the dentry returned by start_creating_path. it came from there, so hand it back. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so end_creating_path unlocks the locks that start_creating_path took and drops the references that were taken. it’s the “ok we’re done here, clean up your mess” moment. ✨

⚠️ bestie, listen: this should only be called if start_creating_path returned a non-error. do not call it just for fun. no cap.

if vfs_mkdir was called and it returned an error, that error should be passed to end_creating_path together with the path. like, bring the error and the path to the cleanup party. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the SEE ALSO crew is Kernel file ./fs/namei.c plus this whole iconic list:

• check_acl(9)
• acl_permission_check(9)
• generic_permission(9)
• do_inode_permission(9)
• sb_permission(9)
• inode_permission(9)
• path_get(9)
• path_put(9)
• path_connected(9)
• try_to_unlazy(9)
• try_to_unlazy_next(9)
• complete_walk(9)
• may_follow_link(9)
• safe_hardlink_source(9)
• may_linkat(9)
• may_create_in_sticky(9)
• lookup_fast(9)
• start_dirop(9)
• end_dirop(9)
• kern_path_parent(9)
• vfs_path_parent_lookup(9)
• vfs_path_lookup(9)
• try_lookup_noperm(9)
• lookup_noperm(9)
• lookup_one(9)
• lookup_one_unlocked(9)
• lookup_one_positive_killable(9)
• lookup_one_positive_unlocked(9)
• lookup_noperm_unlocked(9)
• start_creating(9)
• start_removing(9)
• start_creating_killable(9)
• start_removing_killable(9)
• start_creating_noperm(9)
• start_removing_noperm(9)
• start_creating_dentry(9)
• start_removing_dentry(9)
• __start_renaming(9)
• start_renaming(9)
• start_renaming_dentry(9)
• start_renaming_two_dentries(9)
• vfs_prepare_mode(9)
• vfs_create(9)
• atomic_open(9)
• vfs_lookup_open(9)
• vfs_tmpfile(9)
• kernel_tmpfile_open(9)
• dentry_create(9)
• vfs_mknod(9)
• vfs_mkdir(9)
• vfs_rmdir(9)
• vfs_unlink(9)
• vfs_symlink(9)
• vfs_link(9)
• vfs_rename(9)
• vfs_readlink(9)
• vfs_get_link(9)
• page_get_link(9)
• page_put_link(9)

mwah 💋 source/version is ./fs, date is October 2026, and the page is end_creating_path(9).