ksmbd_vfs_truncate(9)

✨ ksmbd_vfs_truncate(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💅 this one's a little function called ksmbd_vfs_truncate and honestly? she's giving tiny-but-mighty. no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ksmbd_vfs_truncate — literally the vfs helper for smb file truncate 🎀 like that's her whole job and she does it.

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int ksmbd_vfs_truncate (struct ksmbd_work *work , struct ksmbd_file *fp
, loff_t size );

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• work — the work. yeah. that's the whole description. she said "no further comment" 💀
• fp — the ksmbd file pointer 🫶 your lil handle to the file in question.
• size — truncate to given size 📏 that's the number, bestie, the new size. periodt.

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

0 on success, otherwise error 😭 so like, zero means slay, anything else means go check the vibes (the error).

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/vfs.c — go read the source, iykyk 👑

• ksmbd_vfs_create(9)
• 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_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)

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mwah 💋 this page came to you from the source ./fs/smb/server, stamped October 2026, and filed under ksmbd_vfs_truncate(9) — bye bestie, go truncate something responsibly 🧚‍♀️✨