genl_sk_priv_get(9)

💅 genl_sk_priv_get(9) — a Kernel API Manual moment 🎀

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, and today's main character is genl_sk_priv_get 💖 she's a function, she's a vibe, and she's here to hand you a socket's very own private memory. no cap.

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✨ NAME ✨

genl_sk_priv_get — Get family private pointer for socket 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void * genl_sk_priv_get (struct genl_family *family , struct sock *sk );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• family — the family 💫 (yes literally, that's the whole description, it's giving mysterious icon energy)
• sk — the socket 🔌

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So here's the tea ☕ — she looks up the private memory for a Generic netlink family and the socket you specified. And if that private memory hasn't been allocated yet? She just... allocates it for you. no big deal. obsessed with a self-starter honestly 👑

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

On success you get a valid pointer ✨ otherwise you get a negative error value, encoded by ERR_PTR 😭 so like, check it, bestie, fr fr.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./net/netlink/genetlink.c 📁 — also go say hi to __genl_sk_priv_get(9), genl_register_family(9), genl_unregister_family(9), and genlmsg_put(9) 🧚

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lowkey important reminder: this page lives at ./net/netlink, and she was last touched in October 2026 ⭐ so yeah, she's fresh 💅

and that's the whole page bestie, slay, ate, periodt 🌸💖🎀