get_group_info(9)

✨ get_group_info(9) ✨

okay bestie, this is a Kernel API Manual page for get_group_info(9) — and yes, it's giving very “tiny function, very important reference” energy 💅

💖 NAME 💖

get_group_info — Get a reference to a group info structure

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

struct group_info * get_group_info (struct group_info *gi );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• gi — the group info to reference. That's the thing you're grabbing a reference to, bestie.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This gets a reference to a set of supplementary groups. Periodt.

If the caller is accessing a task's credentials, they must hold the RCU read lock when reading. Like, not optional — this is a hard requirement, no cap.

👑 RETURN 👑

It returns gi. That's the whole return vibe.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./include/linux/cred.h; also put_group_info(9), get_cred_many(9), put_cred_many(9), current_cred(9), current_real_cred(9), __task_cred(9), get_current_cred(9), get_current_user(9), get_current_groups(9).

Bye bestie 🫶 — this page comes from ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it's get_group_info(9) ✨💖