sshp_buf_alloc(9)

💅 sshp_buf_alloc — okay so this is the glow-up page for your SSH parser buffer ✨

Welcome to the Kernel API Manual, bestie 🎀 — today's main character is sshp_buf_alloc(9), and no cap, she's the one who sets your buffer up so it can actually live.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

sshp_buf_alloc — allocate and initialize a SSH parser buffer. Literally her whole job 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int sshp_buf_alloc (struct sshp_buf *buf , size_t cap , gfp_t flags );

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✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• buf — the buffer you're initializing/allocating to 🫶 like, this is the one getting the makeover.
• cap — the desired capacity of the buffer. how much room she gets to vibe in 💅
• flags — the flags used for allocating the memory. the ~parameters~ of the whole operation, iykyk.

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So here's the tea ☕: sshp_buf_alloc allocates cap bytes and initializes the provided buffer struct with the allocated memory. That's it, that's the whole slay 🔥

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👑 RETURN 👑

Returns zero on success 🌈 and -ENOMEM if allocation failed 😭 (yes, that's the sad-path vibe check, and she does not pass it).

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

Kernel file ./drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/ssh_parser.h struct sshp_buf(9), sshp_buf_init(9), sshp_buf_free(9), sshp_buf_drop(9), sshp_buf_read_from_fifo(9), sshp_buf_span_from(9) — go read the whole friend group, fr fr 💖

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okay bestie that's the page 💀 go forth and allocate responsibly ✨

Signed, sealed, delivered with love from ./drivers/platform/surface/agg..., dated October 2026, and yes — this whole iconic moment is still filed under sshp_buf_alloc(9) 🎀🫶