return_gap_lebs(9)

✨ return_gap_lebs(9) ✨

okay so this is return_gap_lebs(9), straight out of the Kernel API Manual, and we are getting into some UBIFS commit-method lore 💅

💖 NAME 💖

return_gap_lebs — return LEBs used by the in-gap commit method.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int return_gap_lebs (struct ubifs_info *c );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• c — UBIFS file-system description object

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

bestie, this function clears the "taken" flag for the LEBs which were used by the "commit in-the-gaps" method. that's the whole vibe check: the LEBs get their "taken" flag cleared, periodt. ✨

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the kernel file ./fs/ubifs/tnc_commit.c is the main-character location, and these besties are all linked:

• make_idx_node(9)
• fill_gap(9)
• find_old_idx(9)
• is_idx_node_in_use(9)
• layout_leb_in_gaps(9)
• get_leb_cnt(9)
• layout_in_gaps(9)
• layout_in_empty_space(9)
• layout_commit(9)
• find_first_dirty(9)
• find_next_dirty(9)
• get_znodes_to_commit(9)
• alloc_idx_lebs(9)
• free_unused_idx_lebs(9)
• free_idx_lebs(9)
• ubifs_tnc_start_commit(9)
• write_index(9)
• free_obsolete_znodes(9)
• ubifs_tnc_end_commit(9)

mwah 💋 source/version: ./fs/ubifs — date: October 2026 — page: return_gap_lebs(9) 🫶✨