scan_padding_bytes(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to scan_padding_bytes(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this function is literally here to scan for padding bytes. That’s the whole assignment, no cap. 💅

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

int scan_padding_bytes (void *buf , int len );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• buf — buffer to scan. Yes bestie, that’s the thing getting scanned. 👀
• len — length of buffer. Gotta know how much of it we’re looking at, periodt.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here’s the tea: this function returns the number of padding bytes on success, and SCANNED_GARBAGE on failure. That’s it, that’s the plot. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Kernel file: ./fs/ubifs/scan.c

• ubifs_scan_a_node(9)
• ubifs_start_scan(9)
• ubifs_end_scan(9)
• ubifs_add_snod(9)
• ubifs_scanned_corruption(9)
• ubifs_scan(9)
• ubifs_scan_destroy(9)

mwah 💋 that’s the manual page, bestie — source/version ./fs/ubifs, date October 2026. 🫶