ovpn_peer_keepalive_send(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to ovpn_peer_keepalive_send(9) — that's the page title, and the manual name is Kernel API Manual, folded in right here near the top like a little name tag 🫶. This function is literally the periodic worker sending keepalive packets, and that's the whole NAME moment. Iconic. ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Here's the exact signature, spacing and all — do not “fix” her:

void ovpn_peer_keepalive_send (struct work_struct *work );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• work — pointer to the work member of the related peer object. One argument, no extra little surprises, periodt. 💅

💅 NOTE 💅

Lowkey crucial note, don't skip: the reference to peer is not dropped because it gets inherited by ovpn_xmit_special. So yeah — ovpn_xmit_special inherits that peer reference, and that's the tea. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file ./drivers/net/ovpn/peer.c is right there in the mix, and here's the full squad of related pages — every single one, no cap:

• ovpn_peer_keepalive_set(9)
• ovpn_peer_new(9)
• ovpn_peer_reset_sockaddr(9)
• ovpn_peer_endpoints_update(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_rcu(9)
• ovpn_peer_release(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_kref(9)
• ovpn_peer_skb_to_sockaddr(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_skb4(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_skb6(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_vpn_addr4(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_vpn_addr6(9)
• ovpn_peer_vpn_addr_conflict4(9)
• ovpn_peer_vpn_addr_conflict6(9)
• ovpn_peer_transp_match(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_transp_addr(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_id_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_id(9)
• ovpn_peer_get_by_dst(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_rt4(9)
• ovpn_nexthop_from_rt6(9)
• ovpn_peer_check_by_src(9)
• ovpn_peer_add_mp(9)
• ovpn_peer_add_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_add(9)
• ovpn_peer_del_mp(9)
• ovpn_peer_del_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peer_del(9)
• ovpn_peer_release_p2p(9)
• ovpn_peers_free(9)
• ovpn_peer_keepalive_work(9)

Cute sign-off at the very end: source/version is ./drivers/net/ovpn, date is October 2026, and the page is ovpn_peer_keepalive_send(9) from the Kernel API Manual. You ate this whole manpage, bestie — go be the main character of kernel work. 💖✨🌈