smb2_check_sign_req(9)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so this is the smb2_check_sign_req(9) page from the Kernel API Manual, and it is literally the main character of this group chat. 💅

smb2_check_sign_req — handler for req packet sign processing. That’s the whole name line, bestie, no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

int smb2_check_sign_req (struct ksmbd_work *work );

This is the signature, copied exactly — spaces and all. 🫶

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• work — smb work containing notify command buffer

That’s the only argument on this one. It’s giving “one job, one job only”. 💖

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

• 1 on success
• 0 otherwise

fr fr, that’s the whole return vibe check. ✨

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c — yes, that exact path, bestie. Then the whole iconic function squad:

• smb2_get_ksmbd_tcon(9), smb2_set_err_rsp(9), is_smb2_neg_cmd(9), is_smb2_rsp(9), get_smb2_cmd_val(9), set_smb2_rsp_status(9), init_smb2_neg_rsp(9), smb2_set_rsp_credits(9)
• init_chained_smb2_rsp(9), is_chained_smb2_message(9), init_smb2_rsp_hdr(9), smb2_allocate_rsp_buf(9), smb2_check_user_session(9), smb2_get_name(9), smb2_get_dos_mode(9), build_rdma_ctx(9)
• smb3_encryption_negotiated(9), decode_rdma_ctx(9), smb2_handle_negotiate(9), smb2_tree_connect(9), smb2_create_open_flags(9), smb2_tree_disconnect(9), smb2_session_logoff(9), create_smb2_pipe(9)
• smb2_set_ea(9), smb2_open(9), smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9), buffer_check_err(9), smb2_get_ea(9), smb2_query_info(9), smb2_close_pipe(9), smb2_close(9)
• smb2_echo(9), smb2_set_info_file(9), smb2_set_info(9), smb2_read_pipe(9), smb2_set_rdma_key(9), smb2_prep_rdma_read(9), smb2_current_req_len(9), check_rdma_desc(9)
• smb2_parse_rdma_write_transform(9), smb2_read_rdma(9), smb2_read(9), smb2_write_pipe(9), smb2_write_rdma(9), smb2_write(9), smb2_flush(9), smb2_cancel(9)
• smb2_lock(9), smb2_ioctl(9), smb20_oplock_break_ack(9), smb21_lease_break_ack(9), smb2_oplock_break(9), smb2_notify(9), smb2_is_sign_req(9), smb2_get_sign_rsp_iov(9)
• smb2_set_sign_rsp(9), smb3_check_sign_req(9), smb3_set_sign_rsp(9), smb3_preauth_hash_rsp(9)

iykyk, that’s the whole SEE ALSO crew accounted for. 🌈💜

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Catch u later, bestie — source/version: ./fs/smb/server, date: October 2026. 💅✨🫶