STRUCT OVPN_PRIV(9)

🌸 NAME 🌸

struct ovpn_priv — per ovpn interface state. Hii bestie, welcome to the struct ovpn_priv(9) page in the Kernel API Manual 💖 This is the state struct for an ovpn interface, and we’re doing a full field roll call, no skips.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

Okay so here’s the whole struct, exactly as it appears:

       struct ovpn_priv {
           struct net_device *dev;
           enum ovpn_mode mode;
           spinlock_t lock;
           struct ovpn_peer_collection *peers;
           struct ovpn_peer *peer;
           struct gro_cells gro_cells;
           struct delayed_work keepalive_work;
        };

🫶 Members 🫶

• dev — the actual netdev representing the tunnel 🚇
• mode — device operation mode (i.e. p2p, mp, ..) — literally “which mode are we in?” energy 💅
• lock — protect this object 🔒
• peers — data structures holding multi-peer references 🫂
• peer — in P2P mode, this is the only remote peer 👑
• gro_cells — pointer to the Generic Receive Offload cell 🌾
• keepalive_work — struct used to schedule keepalive periodic job ⏰

🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• Kernel file ./drivers/net/ovpn/ovpnpriv.h
• struct ovpn_peer_collection(9) — go read, iykyk 🦋

xoxo, your Kernel API Manual bestie 💜 — source ./drivers/net/ovpn, October 2026, page struct ovpn_priv(9). That’s the vibe, periodt ✨