simple_get_link(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for simple_get_link(9), bestie — it's the generic helper to get the target of "fast" symlinks. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the signature, exactly as written:

const char * simple_get_link (struct dentry *dentry , struct inode
       *inode , struct delayed_call *done );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dentry — not used here, so she's just chilling in the parameter list. 💅
• inode — the symlink inode, aka the main character. 👑
• done — not used here either. no notes. 🙈

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this is the generic helper for filesystems to use for symlink inodes where a pointer to the symlink target is stored in ->i_link. highkey convenient. 🫶

⚠️ NOTE: this isn't normally called, since as an optimization the path lookup code uses any non-NULL ->i_link directly, without calling ->get_link. But ->get_link still must be set, to mark the inode_operations as being for a symlink. that's the whole note, bestie. 💀

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

the symlink target. that's it, that's the return. 💖

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

all from the Kernel file ./fs/libfs.c — and yes, we're listing every single one because we don't skip:

• simple_offset_init(9)
• simple_offset_add(9)
• simple_offset_remove(9)
• simple_offset_rename(9)
• simple_offset_rename_exchange(9)
• simple_offset_destroy(9)
• offset_dir_llseek(9)
• offset_readdir(9)
• simple_rename_timestamp(9)
• simple_setattr(9)
• simple_write_end(9)
• simple_read_from_buffer(9)
• simple_write_to_buffer(9)
• memory_read_from_buffer(9)
• generic_encode_ino32_fh(9)
• generic_fh_to_dentry(9)
• generic_fh_to_parent(9)
• simple_fsync_noflush(9)
• simple_fsync(9)
• generic_check_addressable(9)
• generic_ci_d_compare(9)
• generic_ci_d_hash(9)
• generic_ci_match(9)
• generic_set_sb_d_ops(9)
• inode_maybe_inc_iversion(9)
• inode_query_iversion(9)
• simple_inode_init_ts(9)
• path_from_stashed(9)
• simple_start_creating(9)

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that's the page, bestie. source is ./fs, date is October 2026, and the manual entry is simple_get_link(9) — periodt. 🫶💅✨