rdma_hold_gid_attr(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

rdma_hold_gid_attr — Get reference to existing GID attribute 🌟

okay so this is rdma_hold_gid_attr(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the “get a reference to an existing GID attribute” page. Bestie, it's giving reference-count realness. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void rdma_hold_gid_attr (const struct ib_gid_attr *attr );

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• attr — pointer to the GID attribute whose reference needs to be taken. You're pointing at the GID attribute, and the reference is what we're taking here. No cap.

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This increases the reference count to a GID attribute to keep it from being freed. It's the hold-onto-it move, and it's lowkey important. 🦋

Callers are required to already be holding a reference to attribute. Yes, that's a requirement, bestie — don't skip it. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

All the cross-refs, bestie:

• Kernel file ./drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c
• free_gid_work(9)
• del_gid(9)
• add_modify_gid(9)
• rdma_find_gid_by_port(9)
• rdma_find_gid_by_filter(9)
• rdma_query_gid(9)
• rdma_read_gid_hw_context(9)
• rdma_find_gid(9)
• rdma_get_gid_attr(9)
• rdma_query_gid_table(9)
• rdma_put_gid_attr(9)
• rdma_read_gid_attr_ndev_rcu(9)
• rdma_read_gid_l2_fields(9)
• ib_dispatch_event(9)

Mwah 💋 — this page is from ./drivers/infiniband/core, dated October 2026, and it's literally rdma_hold_gid_attr(9). Byeee 🫶