kernfs_node_dentry(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual entry for kernfs_node_dentry(9) — we're getting a dentry for a kernfs_node and we're gonna understand it 💅✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

kernfs_node_dentry — get a dentry for the given kernfs_node, no cap 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct dentry * kernfs_node_dentry (struct kernfs_node *kn , struct
super_block *sb );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

  • kn — the kernfs_node for which a dentry is needed, like literally the node in question 🎀
  • sb — the kernfs super_block, aka the superblock bestie in this whole situation 💖

💫 RETURN 💫

It gives you back the dentry pointer — that's the whole return value, periodt 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

The kernel file ./fs/kernfs/mount.c is where the lore lives, and these related pages are giving linked-list energy:

okay bye bestie 💖 this page came from ./fs/kernfs in the October 2026 docs drop — mwah 🎀✨

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