gfs2_listxattr(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, this is gfs2_listxattr from the Kernel API Manual, and its whole job is literally to list gfs2 extended attributes 💅✨ no cap, that's the vibe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

the signature is giving very specific, so here it is exactly:

ssize_t gfs2_listxattr (struct dentry *dentry , char *buffer , size_t
size );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dentry — the dentry whose inode we're interested in 👀
• buffer — the buffer where we write the results 🖊️✨
• size — the size of that buffer, fr fr 📏

🦋 RETURN 🦋

on success it gives you the actual size of data 💖, and on error it's -errno 😭. that's the whole mood.

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

the Kernel file ./fs/gfs2/xattr.c is main character energy here, and these icons are also in the group chat:

• gfs2_iter_unstuffed(9)
• __gfs2_xattr_get(9)
• ea_alloc_blk(9)
• ea_write(9)
• gfs2_xattr_remove(9)
• __gfs2_xattr_set(9)
• gfs2_ea_dealloc(9)

okay that's the whole page, bestie 🫶💖 — source/version ./fs/gfs2, date October 2026, page gfs2_listxattr(9) 🎀✨🦋