sk_skb_reason_drop(9)

✨ sk_skb_reason_drop(9) ✨

okay so this is from the Kernel API Manual, and it's literally the page for sk_skb_reason_drop — free an sk_buff with special reason. Bestie, it's giving kernel-core, but I got you. 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sk_skb_reason_drop — free an sk_buff with special reason

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void __fix_address sk_skb_reason_drop (const struct sock *sk , struct
       sk_buff *skb , enum skb_drop_reason reason );

No cap, that's the whole signature. ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• sk — the socket to receive skb, or NULL if not applicable
• skb — buffer to free
• reason — reason why this skb is dropped

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Drop a reference to the buffer and free it if the usage count has hit zero. Meanwhile, pass the receiving socket and drop reason to

bestie, the sentence literally ends at to 😭 that's not me being mysterious, that's the page. No cap. 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay the SEE ALSO list is giving phone book, but every single one is here, fr fr:

• Kernel file ./net/core/skbuff.c
• drop_reasons_register_subsys(9), drop_reasons_unregister_subsys(9), skb_panic(9), napi_skb_cache_get_bulk(9), __build_skb(9), build_skb_around(9), __napi_build_skb(9), napi_build_skb(9), __alloc_skb(9), __netdev_alloc_skb(9), napi_alloc_skb(9), skb_pp_cow_data(9), skb_pp_frag_ref(9), __kfree_skb(9), skb_tx_error(9), consume_skb(9), __consume_stateless_skb(9), napi_consume_skb(9), alloc_skb_for_msg(9), skb_morph(9)
• skb_copy_ubufs(9), skb_clone(9), skb_copy(9), __pskb_copy_fclone(9), pskb_expand_head(9), skb_expand_head(9), skb_copy_expand(9), __skb_pad(9), pskb_put(9), skb_put(9), skb_push(9), skb_pull(9), skb_pull_data(9), skb_trim(9), __pskb_pull_tail(9), skb_copy_bits(9), skb_store_bits(9), skb_zerocopy(9), skb_dequeue(9), skb_dequeue_tail(9)
• skb_queue_purge_reason(9), skb_rbtree_purge(9), skb_queue_head(9), skb_queue_tail(9), skb_unlink(9), skb_append(9), skb_split(9), skb_shift(9), skb_prepare_seq_read(9), skb_seq_read(9), skb_abort_seq_read(9), skb_copy_seq_read(9), skb_find_text(9), skb_pull_rcsum(9), skb_segment(9), skb_to_sgvec(9), skb_cow_data(9), skb_clone_sk(9), skb_partial_csum_set(9), skb_checksum_setup(9)
• skb_checksum_maybe_trim(9), skb_checksum_trimmed(9), skb_try_coalesce(9), skb_scrub_packet(9), skb_eth_pop(9), skb_eth_push(9), skb_mpls_push(9), skb_mpls_pop(9), skb_mpls_update_lse(9), skb_mpls_dec_ttl(9), alloc_skb_with_frags(9), skb_condense(9), __skb_ext_alloc(9), __skb_ext_set(9), skb_ext_add(9), skb_attempt_defer_free(9), skb_splice_from_iter(9)

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okay that's the page, bestie 💖 — source/version is ./net/core, date is October 2026, and the manpage is sk_skb_reason_drop(9). Periodt. 🎀✨