sk_filter_release_rcu(9)

🎀 NAME 🎀

sk_filter_release_rcu — release a socket filter by rcu_head. okay bestie, welcome to the sk_filter_release_rcu(9) page from the Kernel API Manual 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so here's the whole signature, no cap:

void sk_filter_release_rcu (struct rcu_head *rcu );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

• rcu — the rcu_head that contains the sk_filter to free. that's the one and only argument, bestie, and it's literally carrying the sk_filter you're freeing 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read these too, iykyk 👑 this is the whole little friend group:

• Kernel file ./net/core/filter.c
• sk_filter_trim_cap(9)
• bpf_convert_filter(9)
• bpf_check_classic(9)
• sk_filter_release(9)
• bpf_prog_create(9)
• bpf_prog_create_from_user(9)
• sk_attach_filter(9)
• xdp redirect(9)
• bpf_skb_meta_pointer(9)
• bpf_dynptr_from_skb_meta(9)
• bpf_xdp_pull_data(9)
• bpf_icmp_send(9)

byeee from ./net/core, October 2026 edition — mwah, stay iconic 💋💖