is_bad_inode(9)

🦋 NAME 🦋

Okay bestie, welcome to is_bad_inode(9) from the Kernel API Manual — is_bad_inode is literally “is an inode errored.”

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bool is_bad_inode (struct inode *inode );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• inode — inode to test. Yep, that’s the inode you’re checking, bestie 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Returns true if the inode in question has been marked as bad. That’s the whole vibe check — no cap, it’s just telling you if that inode got marked bad 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Kernel file ./fs/bad_inode.c
• make_bad_inode(9)
• iget_failed(9)

Mwah 💋 — source/version ./fs, date October 2026, and this whole page is is_bad_inode(9), out! 🫶✨