ksmbd_vfs_create(9)

💅 ksmbd_vfs_create(9) — the kernel API manual, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the ksmbd_vfs_create page, straight out of the kernel API manual ✨ this is the little helper that handles the vfs side of an smb create file. she's niche, she's specific, and she's lowkey carrying the whole create-file moment 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ksmbd_vfs_create — a vfs helper for smb create file. that's literally her whole job 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int ksmbd_vfs_create (struct ksmbd_work *work , const char *name ,
       umode_t mode );

look at that signature, iconic 😌 three little params and one int coming back at you 🫶

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• work — the work. yes, that's what the docs say, that's what you get, no notes 🙈 it's the work struct, okay?
• name — the file name, and important detail: it's relative to the share. not some absolute path situation, bestie. keep it relative 🎀
• mode — the file create mode. this is the mode she gets created with, periodt 💅

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

returns 0 on success 🎉 and otherwise you get an error 😭 so fr fr, always check the return value, don't just vibe past it.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file lives at ./fs/smb/server/vfs.c and here's the whole friend group she runs with 👑

• ksmbd_vfs_mkdir(9)
• check_lock_range(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_read(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_write(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_getattr(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_fsync(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_remove_file(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_link(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_truncate(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_listxattr(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_getxattr(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_setxattr(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_set_fadvise(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_empty_dir(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_lookup_in_dir(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_kern_path(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing(9)
• ksmbd_vfs_init_kstat(9)

like, that's a whole squad and she's in it 💖 iykyk.

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🫶 cute lil sign-off: this page comes to you from ./fs/smb/server, dated October 2026, and it's filed under ksmbd_vfs_create(9). slay, go create some files responsibly 💅✨