smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9)

💅 smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9)

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9) ✨ we are absolutely gonna get this directory-entry encoding situation understood, no cap 🫶

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🎀 NAME 🎀

smb2_populate_readdir_entry — encodes a directory entry in the smb2 response buffer 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here’s the signature exactly as it is, because we do not mess with code vibes 💅

int smb2_populate_readdir_entry (struct ksmbd_conn *conn , int
info_level , struct ksmbd_dir_info *d_info , struct ksmbd_kstat
*ksmbd_kstat );

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• conn — the connection instance, aka the whole connection situation 🫶
• info_level — the smb information level
• d_info — the structure that includes variables for query dir 👀
• ksmbd_kstat — ksmbd’s wrapper of dirent stat information ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here’s the tea: if a directory has many entries, find first can’t read it fully 😭. find next might be called multiple times to read the remaining dir entries. that’s the whole plot, bestie 💀

💅 RETURN 💅

0 on success, otherwise error. that’s it, periodt 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

if you’re going down the rabbit hole, these are the neighbors 👀 — the kernel file is ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c, and the whole squad is:

• the kernel file: ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c 👀
• 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), 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)

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🌸 sign-off bestie: source ./fs/smb/server, date October 2026, page smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9) — mwah 💋✨