smb3_encryption_negotiated(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 and today's main character is smb3_encryption_negotiated — she checks if the server and the client agreed on enabling encryption 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bool smb3_encryption_negotiated (struct ksmbd_conn *conn );

like, that's the whole vibe check right there ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• conn — the smb connection in question, the one we're side-eyeing 💅

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🦋 RETURN 🦋

true if the connection should be encrypted, else false 🫡 no cap, that's it, that's the whole answer. binary. iconic. periodt 🌈

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

lowkey this is the part where the page just lists everyone she's ever been in a group chat with, and honestly? the friend group is huge 😭 the kernel file is ./fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c and here's the whole squad, all of them, nobody left out 🧚

• the connection / tcon girlies — smb2_get_ksmbd_tcon(9), smb2_check_user_session(9), smb2_tree_connect(9), smb2_tree_disconnect(9), smb2_session_logoff(9)
• the error + status handlers — smb2_set_err_rsp(9), set_smb2_rsp_status(9), buffer_check_err(9)
• the "is this even a thing" checkers — is_smb2_neg_cmd(9), is_smb2_rsp(9), is_chained_smb2_message(9), smb2_is_sign_req(9), smb2_check_sign_req(9), smb3_check_sign_req(9)
• the getters — get_smb2_cmd_val(9), smb2_get_name(9), smb2_get_dos_mode(9), smb2_get_ea(9), smb2_get_sign_rsp_iov(9)
• building the responses 🏗️ — init_smb2_neg_rsp(9), smb2_set_rsp_credits(9), init_chained_smb2_rsp(9), init_smb2_rsp_hdr(9), smb2_allocate_rsp_buf(9), smb2_set_sign_rsp(9), smb3_set_sign_rsp(9), smb2_prep_rdma_read(9)
• the negotiate / create open flags crew — smb2_handle_negotiate(9), smb2_create_open_flags(9), create_smb2_pipe(9), smb2_set_ea(9), smb2_open(9), smb2_populate_readdir_entry(9), smb2_query_info(9), smb2_close_pipe(9), smb2_close(9), smb2_echo(9), smb2_set_info_file(9), smb2_set_info(9)
• the RDMA department (very niche, very cunt 💀) — build_rdma_ctx(9), decode_rdma_ctx(9), smb2_set_rdma_key(9), smb2_current_req_len(9), check_rdma_desc(9), smb2_parse_rdma_write_transform(9), smb2_read_rdma(9), smb2_write_rdma(9)
• the read/write/pipe girlies — smb2_read_pipe(9), smb2_read(9), smb2_write_pipe(9), smb2_write(9)
• miscellaneous icons 👑 — 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), smb3_preauth_hash_rsp(9)

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ngl this list is like a whole contact list, but every single one of them is a real function page, so no skipping 😤💖

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okay that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this absolute slay lives in the ./fs/smb/server directory and it's dated October 2026 — go forth, encrypt, be iconic ✨💅🦋🌸🍓