nfs4_get_state_owner(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to nfs4_get_state_owner(9) from the Kernel API Manual 🫶. The name is literally Look up a state owner given a credential — that’s the whole assignment, no cap.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

struct nfs4_state_owner * nfs4_get_state_owner (struct nfs_server
*server , const struct cred *cred , gfp_t gfp_flags );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• server — the nfs_server to search 🔍
• cred — the RPC credential to match 🪪
• gfp_flags — allocation mode 🧚

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

It returns a pointer to an instantiated nfs4_state_owner struct, or NULL. That’s the tea: pointer or NULL, periodt. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at these besties, iykyk:

• Kernel file ./fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
• nfs4_get_renew_cred(9)
• nfs41_discover_server_trunking(9)
• nfs4_get_clid_cred(9)
• nfs4_put_state_owner(9)
• nfs4_purge_state_owners(9)
• nfs4_free_state_owners(9)
• nfs4_schedule_migration_recovery(9)
• nfs4_schedule_lease_moved_recovery(9)
• nfs4_discover_server_trunking(9)

🦋 okay bye bestie! This page’s source/version footer is ./fs/nfs and the date is October 2026 — nfs4_get_state_owner(9) out! 💅✨