flow_rule_m...ontrol_flags(9)

💅 flow_rule_match_has_control_flags — Kernel API Manual

okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up of flow_rule_match_has_control_flags ✨ this one lives in the Kernel API Manual and honestly? she's a little icon. short, sweet, does exactly one thing, and we're obsessed 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

flow_rule_match_has_control_flags — match and check for any control flags 🦋

like, that's the whole job. she matches, she checks, she flags. main character energy fr fr 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool flow_rule_match_has_control_flags (const struct flow_rule *rule ,
struct netlink_ext_ack *extack );

two args, one bool coming back at you. no cap 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rule — the flow_rule under evaluation 👑 this is the thing getting the vibe check.
• extack — the netlink extended ACK, aka the messenger that reports errors when things get messy 😭

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💖 RETURN 💖

true if control flags are set, false otherwise 🌈

that's it, that's the tea. binary queen behavior ⭐

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./include/net/flow_offload.h 📁
• flow_offload_has_one_action(9)
• flow_rule_is_supp_control_flags(9)
• flow_rule_is_supp_enc_control_flags(9)
• flow_rule_has_control_flags(9)
• flow_rule_has_enc_control_flags(9)

the whole friend group, iykyk 💜

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ngl this page is tiny but she's perfect. don't sleep on the .h file, bestie — that's where the real lore lives 💀

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mwah 💋 that's a wrap — this lil beauty comes from ./include/net, dated October 2026, and yes the title is literally flow_rule_m...ontrol_flags(9) (the man page tooling is a lil dramatic and abbreviates her name, we respect the artistic choice 🙈). mwah, go write some flow rules, slay 🍓