nfs_remove_bad_delegation(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 nfs_remove_bad_delegation(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ — this is a Linux kernel entry, and today's main character is nfs_remove_bad_delegation, which handles delegations that are, and I cannot stress this enough, unusable 💀

✨ NAME ✨

nfs_remove_bad_delegation — handle delegations that are unusable 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void nfs_remove_bad_delegation (struct inode *inode , const nfs4_stateid
*stateid );

Like, yes, that's the whole signature. No return value. She just does things 💅

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • inode — the inode to process 🌈 literally just "the inode you're processing", that's the whole vibe
  • stateid — the delegation's stateid 👑 the little ID tag that says which delegation we're talking about

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea ☕ — this is a decision tree, and it's giving very "two paths diverged in a yellow wood":

If the server ACK-ed our FREE_STATEID, then congrats, queen — clean up the delegation 💖 ✨

Else? mark it and keep the revoked state. Not me keeping the revoked state 😭 that's the whole point, no cap.

lowkey important: those are the only two outcomes in this function. Don't invent a third one, bestie, I'm begging 🙈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

okay this list is long, but every single one of these is iconic in her own right, so we're listing them all, periodt:

Kernel file ./fs/nfs/delegation.c

bestie that's a whole friend group and they all live in ./fs/nfs 🧚💜

and that's the page!! from ./fs/nfs, dated October 2026 — slay, go read the source, mwah 💋 🍓💅

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