simple_xattr_free(9)

🎀 simple_xattr_free(9) 🎀

okay so welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie — this one is simple_xattr_free(9), and it's literally the free-the-xattr-object moment ✨. no cap, it's a tiny cleanup page and we're obsessed.

✨ NAME ✨

simple_xattr_free — free an xattr object 💅

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void simple_xattr_free (struct simple_xattr *xattr );

💅 ARGUMENTS 💅

• xattr — the xattr object. that's the one, bestie 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Free the xattr object. periodt. 💖

And yes — it can handle xattr being NULL, so this cleanup bestie is flexible like that 😌. no extra drama, just free it.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./fs/xattr.c — say hi to the whole crew 👑:

• may_write_xattr(9)
• __vfs_setxattr_noperm(9)
• __vfs_setxattr_locked(9)
• vfs_listxattr(9)
• __vfs_removexattr_locked(9)
• generic_listxattr(9)
• xattr_full_name(9)
• simple_xattr_space(9)
• simple_xattr_free_rcu(9)
• simple_xattr_alloc(9)
• simple_xattr_get(9)
• simple_xattr_set(9)
• simple_xattr_set_limited(9)
• simple_xattr_list(9)
• simple_xattr_add(9)
• simple_xattr_add_limited(9)
• simple_xattrs_free(9)
• simple_xattr_cache_cleanup(9)

mwah 💋 — this page is serving from ./fs with the October 2026 stamp, and simple_xattr_free(9) is officially out. 🫶✨