inet_sk_state_load(9)

💅 inet_sk_state_load(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes this is a manpage for a kernel function and we're gonna make it make sense 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

inet_sk_state_load — read sk->sk_state for lockless contexts 🔓💫

like, you wanna peek at a socket's state without holding the lock? this is the girl for the job, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

int inet_sk_state_load (const struct sock *sk );

that's it. that's the whole signature. iconic, honestly 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• sk — socket pointer. that's your socket bestie, the one you're trying to get the state out of 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here's the vibe: inet_sk_state_load is paired with inet_sk_state_store — they're a matched set, yin and yang, the two halves of a friendship bracelet 🫶✨

This one is used in places where we don't hold the socket lock — lowkey the whole reason it exists, fr fr. the spots it shows up in are:

• tcp_diag_get_info
• tcp_get_info
• tcp_poll
• get_tcp4_sock
• ... and more (the original is literally trailing off with ... so we're respecting that 🙈)

so like, when you can't grab the lock but you still need the state? that's the assignment, and she ate 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• Kernel file ./include/net/inet_sock.h
• sk_to_full_sk(9)
• inet_sk_state_store(9)

go read those too, iykyk 📚💜

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 this little icon came from the kernel file path ./include/net, dated October 2026, and it's filed under inet_sk_state_load(9) — mwah, go touch some sockets 💋🎀🌸