tcp_release_cb(9)

💖 tcp_release_cb(9) 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Kernel API Manual, and it's a tiny little icon but she does her job 💅

✨ NAME ✨

tcp_release_cb — the release_sock() callback for tcp, no cap 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void tcp_release_cb (struct sock *sk );

✨ ARGUMENTS ✨

• sk — the socket 🫶 like, the socket socket. that's the whole vibe.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this one gets called from release_sock 🌸 and its whole thing is performing protocol dependent actions before the socket release goes down. get your protocol-specific business handled first, then release. order matters bestie, fr fr ✨

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Kernel file ./net/ipv4/tcp_output.c
• tcp_make_synack(9)

and that's the whole page, short and sweet like a text you send at 2am 🦋 mwah 💋

sign-off time: this cutie lives under ./net/ipv4 and the page is dated October 2026 — go off, king 👑💜