get_smb2_cmd_val(9)

💅 get_smb2_cmd_val — NAME

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ and the star of this page is get_smb2_cmd_val — it gets the smb command code from the smb header. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

u16 get_smb2_cmd_val (struct ksmbd_work *work );

literally one argument, one return value, no drama 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS

• work — the smb work, aka the thing that contains the smb request buffer 🍓 (yes, that's where the header lives, that's the whole vibe)

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✨ RETURN

the smb2 request command value, returned as a u16 👑 like… she read the header and she's handing you the command code, no cap 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO

so there's this kernel file, ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c — that's where the magic lives, iykyk 🌈 — and it comes with a whole squad of besties you should also go meet:

smb2_get_ksmbd_tcon(9), smb2_set_err_rsp(9), is_smb2_neg_cmd(9), is_smb2_rsp(9), set_smb2_rsp_status(9), init_smb2_neg_rsp(9), smb2_set_rsp_credits(9), init_chained_smb2_rsp(9), is_chained_smb2_message(9), init_smb2_rsp_hdr(9), smb2_allocate_rsp_buf(9), smb2_check_user_session(9), smb2_get_name(9), smb2_get_dos_mode(9), build_rdma_ctx(9), smb3_encryption_negotiated(9), decode_rdma_ctx(9), smb2_handle_negotiate(9), smb2_tree_connect(9), smb2_create_open_flags(9), smb2_tree_disconnect(9), smb2_session_logoff(9), create_smb2_pipe(9), smb2_set_ea(9), smb2_open(9), smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9), buffer_check_err(9), smb2_get_ea(9), smb2_query_info(9), smb2_close_pipe(9), smb2_close(9), smb2_echo(9), smb2_set_info_file(9), smb2_set_info(9), smb2_read_pipe(9), smb2_set_rdma_key(9), smb2_prep_rdma_read(9), smb2_current_req_len(9), check_rdma_desc(9), smb2_parse_rdma_write_transform(9), smb2_read_rdma(9), smb2_read(9), smb2_write_pipe(9), smb2_write_rdma(9), smb2_write(9), smb2_flush(9), smb2_cancel(9), smb2_lock(9), smb2_ioctl(9), smb20_oplock_break_ack(9), smb21_lease_break_ack(9), smb2_oplock_break(9), smb2_notify(9), smb2_is_sign_req(9), smb2_check_sign_req(9), smb2_get_sign_rsp_iov(9), smb2_set_sign_rsp(9), smb3_check_sign_req(9), smb3_set_sign_rsp(9), smb3_preauth_hash_rsp(9) 🌟

that's the whole group chat, go say hi 🫶

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and that's the page, bestie 💖 this one comes to you straight from ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026 — iconic, timeless, periodt 🎀✨