smb2_get_name(9)

💅 smb2_get_name(9) — from the Kernel API Manual, bestie ✨

Okay so picture this: you're deep in the kernel, SMB2 land, and you've got a filename sitting there on the wire in raw smb format. You need it as an actual string. That's literally the whole gig of smb2_get_name — it's the glow-up station for filenames 🎀 get filename string from on the wire smb format, periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

char * smb2_get_name (const char *src , const int maxlen , struct
nls_table *local_nls );

Three args in, one converted filename out. Iconic signature ngl 💖

🫶 ARGUMENTS 🫶

• src — the source buffer, aka where the raw filename bytes are chillin' 🦋
• maxlen — maxlen of source string, so it knows when to stop reading 👑
• local_nls — your nls_table pointer, the charset bestie doing the translating 🌸

🌈 RETURN 🌈

Matching converted filename on success — slay 💅 Otherwise you get an error ptr. Not the vibe, but that's the deal 😭

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c, plus this whole friend group right here:

• 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_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_check_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)

okay that's the whole page, go touch some grass and then go read your filenames 💜 This lil drop came out of ./fs/smb/server and it's stamped October 2026 — and yeah, it's smb2_get_name(9) signing off, mwah 🌸💖