ksmbd_vfs_ke...art_removing(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing(9) — Kernel API Manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, welcome to the glow-up edition of the Kernel API Manual 🎀 this one is a function name so long it's literally giving "my parents named me after the whole family tree" energy, so let's break it down together, k? 💖

✨ NAME ✨

ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing — look up a file and grab the path info before you yeet it into the void 🗑️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ksmbd_vfs_kern_path_start_removing (struct ksmbd_work *work , char
*filepath , unsigned int flags , struct path *path , bool caseless );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

  • work — the work struct, just vibing there being itself, no cap 💫
  • filepath — the file path, and it's relative to the share, okurrr? don't come at it with an absolute path, it doesn't know that life 🚫
  • flags — lookup flags, the lil settings that change how the lookup behaves ⚙️
  • path — if the lookup succeeds, this is where the path info gets handed back to you 🫶 like a lil gift
  • caseless — caseless filename lookup, so File.TXT and file.txt can be besties 💅

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea 👀 — you do the lookup, right? but you do not cross over any mount point, bestie, nope, not today, we stay in our lane 🚧

and on return, the parent of path->dentry will be locked 🔒 and write-access to the filesystem will have been gained ✍️✨

that's a big deal, so like, respect the vibe check on that one 🧚

⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 if the file was found — slay, we got it 💖 — otherwise you get an error 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/vfs.c — plus literally this whole squad right here 🫶

💀 reminder bestie: this page is chillin' in ./fs/smb/server, and it's dated October 2026 — future icon behavior fr fr 🗓️👑

k that's the whole page, ily, go lock some dentries responsibly 💜🦋✨

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