llc_sk_alloc(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this page is llc_sk_alloc(9) from the Kernel API Manual, and the NAME section is right there being iconic: llc_sk_alloc — Allocates LLC sock. that's the whole vibe 🧚

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the signature, verbatim, no cap 💅

struct sock * llc_sk_alloc (struct net *net , int family , gfp_t
       priority , struct proto *prot , int kern );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• net — network namespace 🌸
• family — upper layer protocol family 🦋
• priority — for allocation (GFP_KERNEL, GFP_ATOMIC, etc) 🔥
• prot — struct proto associated with this new sock instance 💜
• kern — is this to be a kernel socket? 👀

🫶 DESCRIPTION 🫶

Allocates a LLC sock and initializes it. Returns the new LLC sock or NULL if there's no memory available for one 😭. that's it — that's the description, and honestly it ate.

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

like, go read these too, bestie 💖 — kernel file first:

• Kernel file ./net/llc/llc_conn.c — that's the source, go peek 🌈
• llc_conn_state_process(9)
• llc_conn_rtn_pdu(9)
• llc_conn_resend_i_pdu_as_cmd(9)
• llc_conn_resend_i_pdu_as_rsp(9)
• llc_conn_remove_acked_pdus(9)
• llc_conn_send_pdus(9)
• llc_conn_service(9)
• llc_qualify_conn_ev(9)
• llc_exec_conn_trans_actions(9)
• __llc_lookup_established(9)
• llc_lookup_listener(9)
• llc_data_accept_state(9)
• llc_find_next_offset(9)
• llc_build_offset_table(9)
• llc_find_offset(9)
• llc_sap_add_socket(9)
• llc_sap_remove_socket(9)
• llc_conn_rcv(9)
• llc_backlog_rcv(9)
• llc_sk_init(9)
• llc_sk_free(9)
• llc_sk_reset(9)

okay that's the page, bestie 🫶 — source/version is ./net/llc, the date stamp is October 2026, and this whole llc_sk_alloc(9) moment is from the Kernel API Manual. periodt 💅